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)