Adapted by Whitney Johnson from a translation by William Aggeler (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)
lyrics
Indolent darling
How I love to see the skin
Of your beautiful body
Shimmer like silk
Upon your heavy head of hair
With its acrid scents
Adventurous, odorant sea
With blue and brown waves
Chorus:
Like a vessel that awakens
To the morning wind
My dreamy soul sets sail again
For a distant sky
Your eyes where nothing is revealed
Of bitter or sweet
Two cold jewels of mingled
Iron and gold
To see you walking in cadence
With fine abandon
A snake which dances on
The end of a staff
Under the weight of indolence
Your childlike head sways
Gently to and fro like the head
Of a young elephant
And your body stretches and leans
Like a slender ship
That rolls from side to side and dips
Its yards in the sea
Chorus
Like a stream swollen with thaw
Of rumbling glaciers
When the waters of your mouth
Rise to the edge of your teeth
It seems I drink Bohemian wine
Bitter and conquering
A liquid sky that scatters
Stars in my heart!
Chorus
credits
from Delicious Night,
released April 9, 2019
Whitney Johnson - vocals, Nora Barton - cello, Billie Howard - piano, violin, Theo Katsaounis - drums
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