The Effectual Marriage + 

Or, The Insipid Narrative of Gina and Miovanni + 

The door was an absurd thing + 

Yet it was passable + 

They quotidienly passed through it + 

It was this shape + 

Gina and Miovanni + 

who they were God knows + 

They knew + 

it was important to them + 

This being of who they were + 

They were themselves + 

Corporeally + 

transcendentally + 

consecutively + 

conjunctively + 

and they were quite + 

complete + 

In the evening they looked out of their two windows + 

Miovanni out of his library window + 

Gina from the kitchen window + 

From among his pots and pans + 

Where he so kindly kept her + 

Where she so wisely busied herself + 

Pots and Pans + 

she cooked in them + 

All sorts of sialagogues + 

Some say + 

that happy women are immaterial + 

So here we might dispense with her + 

Gina being a female + 

But she was more than that + 

Being an incipience + 

a correlative + 

an instigation of the reaction of man + 

From the palpable to the transcendent + 

Mollescent irritant of his fantasy + 

Gina had her use + 

Being useful + 

contentedly conscious + 

She flowered in Empyrean + 

From which no well-mated woman ever returns + 

Sundays + 

a warm light in the parlor + 

From the gritty road + 

on the white wall + 

anybody could see it + 

Shimmered a composite effigy + 

Madonna + 

crinolined + 

a man + 

hidden beneath her hoop + 

Ho for the blue and red of her + 

The silent eyelids of her + 

The shiny smile of her + 

Ding dong + 

said the bell + 

Miovanni + 

Gina called + 

Would it be fitting for you to tell + 

the time for supper + 

Pooh + 

said Miovanni + 

I am + 

Outside time and space + 

Patience said Gina + 

is an attribute + 

And she learned + 

at any hour to offer + 

The dish + 

appropriately delectable + 

What had Miovanni made of his ego + 

In his library + 

What had Gina wondered + 

among the pots and pans + 

One never asked the other + 

So they + 

the wise ones + 

eat their suppers in peace + 

Of what their peace consisted + 

We cannot say + 

Only that he was magnificently man + 

She insignificantly a woman who understood + 

Understanding + 

what is that + 

To Each + 

his entity + 

to others + 

their idiosyncrasies + 

to the free expansion + 

to the annexed + 

their liberty + 

To man his work + 

To woman her love + 

Succulent meals + 

and an occasional caress + 

So be it + 

It so seldom is + 

While Miovanni thought alone in the dark + 

Gina supposed that peeping + 

she might see + 

A round light + 

shining + 

where his mind was + 

She never opened the door + 

Fearing that this might blind her + 

Or even + 

That she should see + 

Nothing at all + 

So while he thought + 

She hung out of the window + 

Watching for falling stars + 

And when a star fell + 

She wished + 

that still + 

Miovanni would love her to-morrow + 

And as Miovanni + 

Never gave any heed to the matter + 

He did + 

Gina was a woman + 

Who wanted everything + 

To be everything in woman + 

Everything everyway at once + 

Diurnally variegate + 

Miovanni always knew her + 

She was Gina + 

Gina who lent monogamy + 

With her fluctuant aspirations + 

A changeant consistency + 

Unexpected intangibilities + 

Miovanni remained + 

Monumentally the same + 

The same Miovanni + 

If he had become anything else + 

GinaвАЩs world would have been at an end + 

Gina with no axis to revolve on + 

Must have dwindled to a full stop + 

In the mornings she dropped + 

Cool crystals + 

Through devotional fingers + 

Saccharine + 

for his cup + 

And marketed + 

With a Basket + 

Trimmed with a red flannel flower + 

When she was lazy + 

She wrote a poem on the milk bill + 

The first strophe + 

Good morning + 

The second + 

Good night + 

Something not too difficult to + 

Learn by heart + 

The scrubbed smell of the white-wood table + 

Greasy cleanliness + 

of the chopper board + 

The coloured vegetables + 

Intuited quality of flour + 

Crickly sparks of straw-fanned charcoal + 

Ranged themselves among her audacious happinesses + 

Pet simplicities of her Universe + 

Where circles were only round + 

Having no vices. + 