Take for joy ... fragments of honey and sunlight

One of the poems from Tristia by Osip Mandelstam

Take for joy from the palms of my hands
fragments of honey and sunlight,
as the bees of Persephone commanded us.

Not to be untied the moored vessel,
not to be heard shadow walking on fur,
not to be mastered terror growing in thickened life.

We have only kisses now,
furred like the smallest bees
found dead after their flight from the hive.

Bees rustling in translucency of densest night,
their home the sleepy forest of Taigetos,
their food time, lungwort, mint.

Take then, take for joy my wild gift,
a plain dry necklace of dead bees,
bees that changed honey into sunlight.

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Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot
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Needing input for a story

I have some things I'm trying to work out for my story and I could use feedback. BtVS, naturally.

During Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, in my verse Buffy and Rupert go to the funeral home before her date with Owen, meaning her date isn't interrupted and she doesn't break up with them. Possibly before or during I Robot; You Jane, Owen sees Buffy slaying and starts patrolling on his own but what would their relationship be like until then?

Evil!Giles introduces Willow to tantra, not directly because he doesn't want anything to get back to Buffy, but he manipulates Willow into "borrowing" some books. Part of what she reads involves violating boundaries and so I'm trying to work out what kinds of boundaries first season Willow would break. I'm thinking light and possibly humorous things like eating a ham sandwich and then folding up the wrapper really small before throwing the wrapper away so nobody will see it and guess what she's done. What other things might she do?