In reading your poem, "Virtues of the Boring Husband", I had a couple of questions pertaining to some of the imagery used to elaborate on the nature of love. One section of stanzas from the poem states:
"It isn’t that lovers always speak
together in a house by the sea, or
in a room
with shadows of leaves and branches
on the walls and ceiling.
It’s that such spaces emerge
out of the listening
their speaking to eachother
engenders.
I mean, maybe…"
By this is the speaker referring to the way in which love does not begin in the gardens or houses that lovers reside in, but rather it is their conversation that makes them fall in love, and puts them in such settings?
Secondly, I would like to clarify what is meant by the stanza which compares lovers to "heaven and earth, body and soul..." and etc. By this does the husband mean that true lovers are exact opposites of eachother, and yet they work together perfectly to create a complete entity?
My third and final question come from the middle of the poem, in which the speaker mentions that God's first nature is "I love!" and that the "You" is an echo of this nature. From this I can only assume that humans are "You" being personified, and that "I" is God. The speaker then states that often time we mistake the "I" for the "You". Does this mean that as humans we find our love to be self generated, when in actuality it comes from God and is simply channeled through us?
Thank you for your time and effort.
With respect,
Alex Prather
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