Little Narcissi
1946
My chest expanded
to hold the small jasmine
you sowed tonight with your thin fingers
on my heart.
I didn’t see you at all --
I couldn’t make you out
in such darkness.
But I felt your eyes
running over my entire skin
and I could even sense
the little narcissi fallen over
on their blue-green water.
Athens, 1946.
Little Narcissi
My chest expanded
to hold the small jasmine
you sowed tonight with your thin fingers
on my heart.
I didn’t see you at all --
I couldn’t make you out
in such darkness.
But I felt your eyes
running over my entire skin
and I could even sense
the little narcissi fallen over
on their blue-green water.
Athens, 1946.
