some ask praise of their fellows
but i being otherwise
made compose curves
and yellows, angles or silences
to a less erring end)
myself is sculptor of
your body’s idiom:
the musician of your wrists;
the poet who is afraid
only to mistranslate
a rhythm in your hair,
(your fingertips
the way you move)
the
painter of your voice--
beyond these elements
remarkably nothing is. . . . therefore,lady
am i content should any
by me carven thing provoke
your gesture possibly or
any painting(for its own
reason)in your lips
slenderly should create one least smile
(shyly
if a poem should lift to
me the distinct country of your
eyes, gifted with green twilight)
IX
supposing i dreamed this)
only imagine, when day has thrilled
you are a house around which
i am a wind--
your walls will not reckon how
strangely my life is curved
since the best he can do
is to peer through windows, unobserved
--listen, for(out of all
things)dream is noone’s fool;
if this wind who i am prowls
carefully around this house of you
love being such, or such,
the normal corners of your heart
will never guess how much
my wonderful jealousy is dark
if light should flower:
or laughing sparkle from
the shut house(around and around
which a poor wind will roam
X
you are like the snow only
purer fleeter, like the rain
only sweeter frailer you
whom certain
flowers ressemble but trembling(cowards
which fear
to miss within your least gesture the hurting
skill which lives)and since
nothing lingers
beyond a little instant,
along with rhyme and with laughter
O my lady
(and every brittle marvelous breathing thing)
since i and you are on our ways to dust
of your fragility
(but chiefly of your smile,
most suddenly which is
of love and death a marriage)you give me
courage
so that against myself
the sharp days slobber in vain:
Nor am i afraid that
this, which we call autumn, cleverly
dies and over the ripe world wanders with
a near and careful
smile in his mouth(making
everything suddenly old and with his awkward eyes
pushing
sleep under and thoroughly
into all beautiful things)
winter, whom Spring shall kill
XI
because
you go away i give roses who
will advise even yourself, lady
in the most certainly(of what we
everywhere do not touch)deep
things;
remembering ever so
tinily these, your crisp
eyes actually shall contain new faeries
(and if your slim lips are amused, no wisest
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