in you the earth

❝ Little rose, rose little one,

at times, tiny and naked,

it seems as though you would fit

in one of my hands,

as though I’ll clasp you like this

and carry you to my mouth,

but suddenly

my feet touch your feet and my mouth your lips:

you have grown,

your shoulders rise like two hills,

your breasts wander over my breast,

my arm scarcely manages to encircle the thin

a new-moon line of your waist:

in love, you have loosened yourself like the seawater:

I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes

and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth..... ❞