quarta-feira, outubro 25, 2006

When I Look at the Pictures - Lawrence Ferlinghetti (7)


SHORT STORY ON A PAINTING OF GUSTAV KLIMT


They are kneeling upright on flowered bed
He
has just caught her there
and holds her still

Her gown
has slipped down
off her shoulder

He has an urgent hunger
His dark head
bends to hers
hungrily

And the women the women
turns her tangerine lips from his
one hand like the head of a dead swan
draped down over
his heavy neck
the fingers
strangely crimped
tightly together
her other arm doubled up
against her tight breast
her hand a languid claw
clutching his hand
which would turn her mouth
to his
her long dress made
of multicoloured blossoms
quilted on gold
her Titian hair
with blue stars in

And his gold
harlequin robe
checkered with
dark squares

Gold garlands
stream down over
her bare calves &
tensed feet

Nearby there must be
A jewelled tree
with glass leaves aglitter
in the gold hair

It must be
morning
in a faraway place somewhere

They
are silent together
as in a flowered field
upon the summer couch
which must be hers

And he holds her still
so passionately
holds her head to his
so gently so insistently
to make her turn
her lips to his

Her eyes are closed
Like folded petals

She
will not open
He
is not the One

Poema de Lawrence Ferlinghetti para "The Kiss", 1907, de Gustav Klimt. Osterreichische Galerie, Vienna.

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