The Explorers Because each day is the same each moment is new Because we never leave town, right here: an unexplored world Because we are lifelong lovers, each touch: a nameless delight Today marks the secret entrance— a gap in the hedgerow Always we are working out the details bending low to enter and finding ourselves (once again) where we have never been before Take me with you (The secret gate is easily missed) Take me into the hidden thicket— the way to the unmarked continent Here is the blazing land of noone, and the waiting smile of our mutual assassin