Might I but moor in thee tonight
What does that mean
I have broken a line of an
Emily Dickinson poem
It sounds both sexual and dreamlike
At the same time
You moor your boat
But the question is
Might I but moor in thee tonight
Which might mean an act of lovemaking
Or that you might be secure in my arms
Moors were also people from the Maghreb
The Iberian Peninsula and elsewhere
A moor is an uncultivated upland
A moor is many things
Yet I am aware that in these days of plague
That you are at last returning
To our central bed
After a period in a distant room
And that is enough for me
From Letter to Jane (2022)