here and here they explode
silently into crocuses of brightness. (That is enough
of life, for you. I understand. Once
again. . . .)sliding
a little downward,embrace me with your body’s suddenly
curving entire warm questions
X
sunlight was over
our mouths fears hearts lungs arms hopes feet hands
under us the unspeaking Mediterranean bluer
than we had imagined
a few cries drifting through
high air
a sail a fishing boat somebody an invisible spectator,
maybe certain nobodies laughing faintly
playing moving far below us
perhaps one villa caught like pieces
of a kite in the trees, here
and here reflecting
sunlight
(everywhere sunlight keen complete
silent
and everywhere you your kisses your flesh mind breathing
beside under around myself)
by and by
a fat colour reared itself against the sky and the sea
. . . finally your eyes knew
me, we smiled to each other, releasing lay, watching
(sprawling, in
grass upon a
cliff) what had been something
else carefully slowly fatally turning into ourselves . . .
while in the very middle of fire all
the world becoming bright and little melted.
FOUR
I
the moon looked into my window
it touched me with its small hands
and with curling infantile
fingers it understood my eyes cheeks mouth
its hands(slipping)felt of my necktie wandered
against my shirt and into my body the
sharp things fingered tinily my heart life
the little hands withdrew, jerkily, themselves
quietly they began playing with a button
the moon smiled she
let go my vest and crept
through the window
she did not fall
she went creeping along the air
over houses
roofs
And out of the east toward
her a fragile light bent gatheringly
II
if being morticed with a dream
myself speaks
(whispering,
suggesting that our souls
inhabit whatever is between them)
knowing my lips hands the way i move
my habits laughter
i say
you will perhaps pardon,
possibly you will comprehend. and how
this has arrived your mind may guess
if at sunset
it should, leaning against me, smile;
or(between dawn and twilight)giving
your eyes, present me also
with the terror of shrines
which noone has suspected(but
wherein silently
always
are kneeling the various deaths
which are your lover lady:together with what keen
innumerable lives he has not lived.
III
here’s a little mouse)and
what does he think about, i
wonder as over this
floor(quietly with
bright eyes)drifts(nobody
can tell because
Nobody knows, or why
jerks Here &, here,
gr(oo)ving the room’s Silence)this like
a littlest
poem a
(with wee ears and see?
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