How I’d like him... Peter Sirr

Françoise Dorléac in The Soft Skin (1964).

Estat ai en greu cossirier

How I’d like him/oh

how I would like him my

cavalier

even if for a single night

naked in my arms

his head resting on my lap

I love him, more

than Floris loved Blanchflor

I did not tell him this

Everyone, everyone should know

To him I gave my heart my soul

my reason my eyes my life

My tender beautiful cavalier

when will I have you for myself?

For one night only

naked in your arms

If you could only take

my husband’s place

and swear to me you’ll answer

when I call, and heed my desire.

Peter Sirr, The Rooms (Gallery Press, 2014)