November 26 2 010
It rhymes XL of Becquer
It rhymes XL
Its hand between my hands,
the affectionate head
supported in my shoulder,
God knows how many times
with lazy step
we have strolled around together
under the high elm trees
that of its house are big enough
mystery and shade to the porch.
*
And yesterday … one year scarcely,
past like a blow,
with what exquisite grace,
with what admirable composure,
he said to me on having presented us
a semiofficial friend:
I believe that somewhere
I have seen you! Ah, fools,
that you are of the lounges
midwifes of good tone,
and you were walking there in fighter
of gallant entanglements:
what history have you lost,
what so tasty delicacy
to be devoured
sotto voce in a choir
behind the fan
of pens and of gold …!
*
Discreet and chaste moon,
walls of its house,
thresholds of its porch,
be quiet, and that the secret
do not go out of you.
Be quiet, that for my part
I have forgotten everything;
and she … she, there is no mask
similar to its face.
That the night it does not confuse you







