BABY
1The blue beginning of your eyesCondenses the sprawling and assuredBlue with which the sky retreatsFrom those obscene confessions known as days.2Again, your battling mites of blueTry to stop the revolving monster of lifeAnd find the indelible persuasivenessOf single forms within the circling blur.Sundered bits of a soulAstonished at their shrunken estate,They are not sure that they have still survived,And plead for the conviction of sight.3But when they recollectThe hugely placid mannersOf their life, before the earthly exileMade them small and fastenedTo one pathetic puzzle,Their blue reverts to swelling reveriesWhose outward circles spurn the curtained jail.4Upon your softly incompleteFace, where germs of devils stir in curvesThat tremble into questioning symmetries,A thrust of darkness sometimes interferesWith secret, virgin places underneathYour eyes and where your leaf-thin nostrils pause.This darkness bends with helpless messages,Like history admonishing a worldPersonified in one, composite face.
1The blue beginning of your eyesCondenses the sprawling and assuredBlue with which the sky retreatsFrom those obscene confessions known as days.2Again, your battling mites of blueTry to stop the revolving monster of lifeAnd find the indelible persuasivenessOf single forms within the circling blur.Sundered bits of a soulAstonished at their shrunken estate,They are not sure that they have still survived,And plead for the conviction of sight.3But when they recollectThe hugely placid mannersOf their life, before the earthly exileMade them small and fastenedTo one pathetic puzzle,Their blue reverts to swelling reveriesWhose outward circles spurn the curtained jail.4Upon your softly incompleteFace, where germs of devils stir in curvesThat tremble into questioning symmetries,A thrust of darkness sometimes interferesWith secret, virgin places underneathYour eyes and where your leaf-thin nostrils pause.This darkness bends with helpless messages,Like history admonishing a worldPersonified in one, composite face.
1
1
The blue beginning of your eyesCondenses the sprawling and assuredBlue with which the sky retreatsFrom those obscene confessions known as days.
The blue beginning of your eyes
Condenses the sprawling and assured
Blue with which the sky retreats
From those obscene confessions known as days.
2
2
Again, your battling mites of blueTry to stop the revolving monster of lifeAnd find the indelible persuasivenessOf single forms within the circling blur.Sundered bits of a soulAstonished at their shrunken estate,They are not sure that they have still survived,And plead for the conviction of sight.
Again, your battling mites of blue
Try to stop the revolving monster of life
And find the indelible persuasiveness
Of single forms within the circling blur.
Sundered bits of a soul
Astonished at their shrunken estate,
They are not sure that they have still survived,
And plead for the conviction of sight.
3
3
But when they recollectThe hugely placid mannersOf their life, before the earthly exileMade them small and fastenedTo one pathetic puzzle,Their blue reverts to swelling reveriesWhose outward circles spurn the curtained jail.
But when they recollect
The hugely placid manners
Of their life, before the earthly exile
Made them small and fastened
To one pathetic puzzle,
Their blue reverts to swelling reveries
Whose outward circles spurn the curtained jail.
4
4
Upon your softly incompleteFace, where germs of devils stir in curvesThat tremble into questioning symmetries,A thrust of darkness sometimes interferesWith secret, virgin places underneathYour eyes and where your leaf-thin nostrils pause.This darkness bends with helpless messages,Like history admonishing a worldPersonified in one, composite face.
Upon your softly incomplete
Face, where germs of devils stir in curves
That tremble into questioning symmetries,
A thrust of darkness sometimes interferes
With secret, virgin places underneath
Your eyes and where your leaf-thin nostrils pause.
This darkness bends with helpless messages,
Like history admonishing a world
Personified in one, composite face.