She is happening in his fingers

 

And

The horses are approaching

(He subjects his head

To the sublimate

Of his body)

 

When he colours his muscles

The goddess follows

Into his labyrinth.

 

He omits his head

And discards the numbers

Away

From his thighs

 

She leads her games

Into his snare,

And peels the fruit

Around his tongue

 

That’s

The medallion

Of the insight

And that’s the secret

Of his straightness

Down to his arms

 

Her horizon

And the flood of her silver

Are to turn the waters

Back into his effeminacy

And to construct the music

To release his beginnings

 

She is happening

In his fingers,

Gathering them

For his pleased stallion

 

Ah!

She is backing his muscles,

Setting her hills around him

 

I’m the one

Releasing the secret of touching

 

Yes!

Come closer

Let me open

What has been left out of the horizon

Which is suspended

In the rise of the shape.                            Baghdad 1985

 

Traductor: Salam Naji

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