The Comparative Degree

We have rolled together in one bed - the bed of the earth - and have rolled time along with us. With each roll a husk came off husk after husk - from my seed, your seed - dried fallen we more naked closer closer with each roll tighter the ring of our arms around each other's shoulders with each roll clinging closer to each other's bodies from the first month of Mehr to the rising of this month of Mehr - look tonight - more mingled in our embrace ...