The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

GHERASIM LUCA

I trembling you
you seduce me you absorb me
I dispute you
I risk you I climb you
you brush by me
I swim you
But you you whirlwind me
you graze me you surround me
you flesh me leather skin and bite
you black slip me
you red ballet slipper me
and when you don’t high heel my senses
you crocodile them
you seal you fascinate them
you cover me
I discover you I invent you
sometimes you deliver yourself

you damp lips me
I deliver you and I delirious you
you delirious me and passionate me
I shoulder you I vertebra you I ankle you
I eyelash and pupil you
and if I don’t shoulder blade before my lungs
even at a distance you armpit me
I breathe you
day and night I breathe you
I mouth you
I palate you I teeth you I fingernail you
I vulva you I eyelid you
I breath you
I groin you
I blood you I neck you
I calf you I certitude you
I play you and vein you

I hand you
I sweat you
I tongue you
I nape you
I navigate you
I shadow you I body you and ghost you