Body electric

We've been scowering all my poetry books for good wedding readings. Yeats, Heaney, HD, Gertrude Stein, Paul Durcan, Elizabeth Bishop. Nothing is ringing true. The best best so far is an edited collection of lesbian works (duh) in "Chloe Plus Olivia." Though we did find a great Whitman piece which, unfortunately, we can't justify reading at the ceremony with a straight face. Maybe we could assign it to someone else.

O HYMEN! O HYMENEE
by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
HYMEN! O hymenee! why do you tantalize me thus?
O why sting me for a swift moment only?
Why can you not continue? O why do you now cease?
Is it because if you continued beyond the swift moment you would soon certainly kill me?