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Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) A short story writer, born in New Zealand. She wrote her first major work, Prelude in 1917. After a short and unsuccessful marriage to George Bowden, she married, in 1918, writer John Middleton Murry (1889-1957), she died in 1923 at the age of 35.
You are all about me -- I seem to breathe you - hear you -- hear you in me and of me. Last night, there was a moment before you got in bed. You stood, quite naked, bending forward a little -- talking. It was only for an instant. I saw you -- I loved you so -- loved your body with such tenderness - Ah my dear -- And I am not thinking now of "passion". No, of that other thing that makes me feel that every inch of you is so precious to me. Your soft shoulders -- your creamy warm skin, your ears, cold like shells are cold -- your long legs and your feet that I love to clasp with my feet -- the feeling of your belly -- & your thin young back -- Just below that bone that sticks out at the back of your neck you have a little mole. It is partly because we are young that I feel this tenderness -- I love your youth. And so perfect is my love for you that I am, as it were, still, silent to my very soul. I want nobody but you for my lover and my friend and to nobody but you shall I be faithful. I am yours forever.
written, GeminiSide
