Dawn

I have kissed the summer dawn

before the palaces

nothing moved

the water lay dead.

Battalions of shadows

still kept the forest road

i walked, walking warm

and vital breath

while stones watched

and wings rose soundlessly.

...a clear pale light

...a flower who told me its name

I came upon the goddess

Then one by one

I lifted her veils

across the meadow

where I betrayed her to the cock.

I hunted her

And I hunted her!

And smelled the scent

of her immense body.

Dawn and the child fell together

at the bottom of the wood

When I awoke, it was noon.

Life was it really this?

Life!