How I love to see, dear indolent
Of your body so beautiful
Like a wavering fabric
Glimmer the skin

On your deep hair
With acrid perfumes
Sea fragrant and wandering
With blue and brown waves

Like a ship that awakens
To the morning wind
My dreamy soul sets sail
For a distant sky

Your eyes where nothing reveals
Neither sweet nor bitter
Are two cold jewels where mingle
Gold with iron

To see you walk in rhythm
Beautiful in abandonment
One would say a snake that dances
At the end of a stick

Under the burden of your laziness
Your child's head
Swings with the softness
Of a young elephant

And your body leans and stretches
Like a fine ship
Which rolls from side to side and plunges
Its yards into the water

Like a wave swollen by the melting
Of rumbling glaciers
When the water from your mouth rises
To the edge of your teeth

I think I drink a Bohemian wine
Bitter and victorious
A liquid sky that sprinkles
Stars on my heart

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