This poem is taken from PN Review 36, Volume 10 Number 4, March - April 1984.
Marriage as a Problem of Universals
Marriage is where
The large abstractions we profess
Are put gently in their small place-
The holist's stare
In love with Man has managed less
Than eyes that love one ageing face.
Marriage believes
The universals we desire
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