And - by Vicente Reyes

And

I shed my snakeskin

In the morning

After passion’s storm,

After Eden,

Before Egypt,

Before Babylon’s watchtowers

Echo with the call

To morning prayer.

And I slither

With crescendoing joy

Like blue iridescense

In heaven’s choral substance

And in Neptune’s iciness.

And I hiss in midnight bliss

‘Neath the starry sea

And then I kiss

Your nectar lips

And taste the golden rain

Caressing over me

Eternally.

Vicente Reyes

June 29, 1992

Internet source: http://www.thepoetsdiary.com/

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Original English & Spanish translation by Vicente Reyes, all others by SYSTRAN

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