LVIII
Post-Midnight Song
À Poppy
Which of you queens and sour faced merchants
Gives strange gaseous policies
To nest in the palm of an angel’s hand
Or on the yellow breath of a sorcerer’s incantation?
I love you my frivolous toe tapper,
My terrible passion fruit!
With the devotion
Of a priest for his idol.
The dessert and the forest
Arm their cannons with rude bows;
Your head lifts the attitude
Of an ant farm in secret.
On your chair the perfumed army rode
With the author of censorship.
A bracelet was lost the evening
The nymphs played the blues in the warm air.
Ah the filters of strong cigarettes
Blow nearer the vales of your parasol,
And now you know the caress
Which soon will revivify Yule Brenner!
Often an apple,
In your strange and fitful way,
You produce seriously
All the more sure of its bruises.
You cry out to the singers of brown water
With the laugh of a mocking bird
And then you place on top of my heart
An egg as smooth as the moon.
Under the insulters of satin sheets,
Under your charming feet of cheese,
I have met my grandest joy,
My knowledge and my destiny.
My hope for your warring brethren
Is by you illuminated and colored in!
There’s an explosion of chariot horses
In my black nights of Siberia.