Swimming pool

   

                                             Swimming pool

 

You are the same age as the dawn, how come

in the shine before the sun has time to shake out its sheets

 

At this hour toil prepares breakfast

otherness washes its face

the dew cleans health’s gate

and the white houses tie the morrow to their wrists

 

Sorrow’s hot-water bottles wrap themselves round joyful widows

at this hour lilies turn their mouths seawards

for the bruised times to cease blackening the waves

 

In your hands the clouds are bride chalks, how come

the future’s whispers are a heavy sea

your silence spoils the place, your nights sparkle

 

I keep on finding you different

under your skirt burns a red shore

how can you hide from other girls, how can you escape

from their stiletto-heeled deserts

when you glow with passion

 

They have abandoned you on clean lines, how can you

entice timid fields

how undo the spell cast over unguarded crossings

how rub fever on the face of darkness

 

Sin is baking on your back

wealth embroiders gold repentances

Comets rest on your navel

stars drink light

Your extra flame fills the gaps of justice

 

Where dawn doesn’t speak, sorrow lays its eggs

your right hand goes numb and the knees grow hazy

nations rise and light the craters

lest the human body is gagged in a shallow swimming pool

 

I can no longer reach behind your fence to see

I cut tenderness into confetti and distribute it

to the winds of your courtyard

but You

out of the towers you are a princess

out of the mind’s water, a drowning

out of the light, luminance