Every day you play with
the light of the
universe. Subtle
visitor, you arrive in the
flower and the
water, You are
more than this white head
that I hold
tightly as a
bunch of flowers, every day,
between my hands. You are like nobody
since I love
you. Let me
spread you out among yellow
garlands. Who writes
your name in letters of
smoke among the stars of
the south? Oh
let me remember you as
you were before you
existed.
Suddenly the wind howls and
bangs at my shut
window. The sky
is a net crammed with
shadowy fish. Here
all the winds let go
sooner or later, all of
them. The rain
takes off her clothes. The birds go by,
fleeing. The wind.
The wind. I
alone can contend against the
power of men. The storm whirls dark
leaves and turns
loose all the boats that
were moored last night to
the sky. You are here. Oh, you do not run
away. You will
answer me to the last
cry. Curl round
me as though you were
frightened. Even so,
a strange shadow once ran
through your eyes. Now, now too, little
one, you bring me
honeysuckle, and even
your breasts smell of
it. While the
sad wind goes slaughtering
butterflies I love
you, and my happiness bites
the plum of your
mouth. How you must have
suffered getting accustomed to
me, my savage,
solitary soul, my name that
sends them all
running. So many
times we have seen the
morning star burn, kissing our
eyes, and over
our heads the grey light
unwinds in turning
fans. My words
rained over you, stroking
you. A long
time I have loved the
sunned mother-of-pearl of your
body. Until I
even believe that you own
the universe. I
will bring you happy flowers
from the mountains, bluebells,
dark hazels, and rustic baskets
of kisses. I
want to do with you what
spring does with the cherry
trees.