We are up to the knees in your voices And you are up to the shoulders in our hair They are up to the elbows in dark bellies And I am up to the neck in deadly places We are under the flow of boiling water And you under the sound of hammer blows They are in the newspaper page’s shadow And I am in the moment of the iron click We are under the aim of thousands of your phrases And you are behind the wall that has collapsed on us She is on a pile of hands, hearts and eyes And I am up to the throat in them, and in you, and in us