It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug, [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: poetry, Thom Gunn, vintage, vintage gay photo
We two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going — North and South excursions making, Power enjoying — elbows stretching — fingers clutching, Arm’d and fearless — eating, drinking, sleeping, loving, No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming — air breathing, water [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: men, poetry, vintage, Walt Whitman
