My spirit speaks

In the scented quietness of a divine melancholy

Murmuring the tunes

For which my dreams are the delicate instruments.

The shadowy silences

Have made me beautiful and dressed me in velvet dignities,

And that is why

The noise of tambourines has maddened my soul into dancing,

And I am clad

In the lust-lipped whispering of furtive caresses.