Erica Jong - Total Eclipse lyrics

Not wanting to write for fear that anything- the pa**ion for the page, the love of carbon ribbons & erasers- will distract me from your face, from your eyes green as the flickering base of flames, & your tarnished copper hair. My love is thick as rust & just as hard to scrape off. It glows like the green roofs of paris: it shines in the sun like dropped pennies. I fix on your face until I am blurred & bleared, until my eyes cannot focus & all words become one. Oh let me write you into my life! I am afraid of rust & tarnish, but even more afraid of this gleam. When my eyes have taken you in, when my body has eaten & spat you out, when my heart remembers to beat & my fingers remember the pen- will I still remember you then, boyish & sly- yet a total eclipse of my sun?