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It is Marvellous to Wake Up Together -- Elizabeth Bishop

(Poem #40)It is Marvellous to Wake Up Together
 It is marvellous to wake up together
 At the same minute; marvellous to hear
 The rain begin suddenly all over the roof,
 To feel the air suddenly clear
 As if electricity had passed through it
 From a black mesh of wires in the sky.
 All over the roof the rain hisses,
 And below, the light falling of kisses.
 
 An electrical storm is coming or moving away;
 It is the prickling air that wakes us up.
 If lighting struck the house now, it would run
 From the four blue china balls on top
 Down the roof and down the rods all around us, 
 And we imagine dreamily
 How the whole house caught in a bird-cage of lightning
 Would be quite delightful rather than frightening;
 
 And from the same simplified point of view
 Of night and lying flat on one's back
 All things might change equally easily,
 Since always to warn us there must be these black
 Electrical wires dangling. Without surprise
 The world might change to something quite different,
 As the air changes or the lightning comes without our blinking,
 Change as our kisses are changing without our thinking.
-- Elizabeth Bishop