"Married Love" by Guan Daosheng

You and IHave so much love,That itBurns like a fire,In which we bake a lump of clayMolded into a figure of youAnd a figure of me.

Guan Daosheng was a Chinese painter and poet of the early Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). ‘Married Love’ uses the image of clay figurines to represent two lovers being united as one through the sacred act of marriage, just as clay solidifies in a kiln.