baudelaire the snake dance (click on title)
What I see, dear indolent
Of your body so beautiful like silk
flickering
Shimmering skin! On your hair deep
acres For perfumes,
odorant sea
For blue and brown waves, like a ship
awakening the morning wind,
My dreamy soul sets sail for a distant sky.
Your eyes, where nothing is revealed
From sweet or bitter,
are two cold jewels where blends
Gold with iron.
To see you walking in cadence,
Belle d'abandon,
Looks like a snake dance
At the end of a stick,
Under the weight of your laziness
Your child's head sways with the softness
From a young elephant, And your
body stretches and leans like a slender ship
That rolls from side to side, and plunged
Its yards into the water.
Like a stream swollen by melting glaciers rumbling
,
When your saliva exquisite
up the edge of your teeth, I think
drink a wine from Bohemia, and Amer
winner
A liquid sky that scatters
stars my heart!
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