Are you the same girl who sheltered the sun in her hair
Who are you going to meet tonight
A lamb blinking over a patch of earth
The man who grows flowers in a field
Clay pots, shaped from the inside
The red earth changes color when a stream runs over it
Your husband is stretched out on the ground
The girl cries from the number of fingers and toes
Brother, don't look away when she glances at you
His limbs covered in sweat, and ash
Sister, when you look at him
A sand dune came toward us like a sailing ship
When the strange rain singed the outline of a lake into the sand
I have never seen improvements to the flesh. If a man should steal, let it be sugarcane
Islands are pronounced by the ocean without bubbles
Down the river the creatures in the basin prepare
The tree collapsed on itself
The growing fingers of clouds meet
Daughter, along the rim of what you were knitting
Why is the forest canopy strung with rope?
The bird is in the center of the sun
After two days I was luminous and half-naked
The animals were slowly digging in the mud, and were frightened
We came across a hunter disguised as a bird
The dancing girl has veiled her body
A tear was painted on your cheek
At the bottom of the pond in your heart
If I can deceive this girl then let me
You tell me I have pine needles for bedding
They do not want to be noticed
A river has gotten away from you. Pools
On your body I left behind
Why have my friends spoken of him
Your thin body, encased in my warmthy
What is this belt made of, that clasps your dress to your waist?
House, floating under moon
On maps the sea carries color
Birds aglow in yellow do not carry ashes
The star has given me a body
Thick in the forest masks are hung in rows, grinning
By the evening your hair is curled
Approach shadows like shallow water
When you slipped off your dress, orders streamed from your lips
The pigment of crushed petals
I embraced you by mistake
Like the wind that gusts coastal pines toward the water
I guarded your sleep like a young cat
If you stand there in the open rain
Your head seems lower in this light
Fresh banana leaves can carry whole fish
The afternoon is a fugitive
You curse the rain outside your window, believing
And if a bird descended on your shoulder
Your hair is suspended in motion
Like wooden planks from a broken ship.
You hear the sun in the morning
Your lips are as full as a wound
A body looks like an unopened bell
Your arms are as long as sand falling from a cracked fist
You are as happy as a waterwheel
Ripening spots of white starlight onto our cold blue sphere
The moon has gone farming at night
The strawberry she held between her teeth
I would twist my arms like coral
I tugged at your laughter like a rope
A spider cannot be used as bait
The wave has come to collect the little ports on the coast
Between kisses the air is quiet
Even your words will not leave you
On your back you sleep as if your wings were planted in the sand
To the bird an island is not as bright as a star
The ground of the forest has become muddy in the rain
This girl's words are as ordered
The earth was fruit, and stars, and motion
You disappear beside me in a forest. Walking
Color is sleeping in some birds
What will you do with these pearls he has given you?
She undressed in the deep shadows of the garden she loved
Apart from you I am as lost
When the sun is wide and drying and filled.
