This Night Only

I opened up this file last night while I sat on Sophie's purple beanbag chair and the sun went down and the super moon went up.

Rexroth's voice was an incantation, and the Satie tinkled behind.

Let's go to Malibu.

Listen to it here.

Here:

An Easy Song

"It’s rained every day since you
Went away. I’ve been lonely.
Lonely, empty, tenderness —
Longing to kiss the corners
Of your mouth as you smile
Your special, inward, sensual,
And ironic smile I love
Because I know it means you
Are content — content in French —
A special, inward, sensual,
And ironic state of bliss.
Tu es contente, ma chèrie?
I am, even if lonely,
Because I can call to mind
Your body in a warm room,
In the rainy winter night,
A rose on the hearth of winter,
A rose cloud standing naked,
In the perfume of your flesh.
Moi aussi, je suis content."

Kenneth Rexroth

And here:

Air and Angels:This Night Only

Moonlight   now    on Malibu

The winter night    the few stars

Far away   millions    of miles

The sea   going on    and on

Forever     around   the earth

Far    and     far     as your lips    are near

Filled    with the same light     as your eyes

Darling     darling     darling

The future     is long gone by

And the past     will never happen

We have     only this

Our one forever

So small    so infinite

So brief    so vast

Immortal     as our hands that touch

Deathless     as the firelit wine we drink

Almighty      as this single kiss

That has no beginning

That will never

Never

End

Kenneth Rexroth