O Night O Trembling Night

O night O trembling night O night of sighs

O night when my body was a rod O night

When my mouth was a vague animal cry

Pasturing on her flesh O night

When the close darkness was a nest

Made of her hair and filled with my eyes

(O stars impenetrable above

The fragile tent poled with our thighs

Among the petals falling fields of time

O night revolving all our dark away)

O day O gradual day O sheeted light

Covering her body as with dews

Until I brushed her sealing sleep away

To read once more in the uncurtained day

Her naked love, my great good news.