somewhere i have never travelled,
gladly beyond
any experience,
your eyes have their silence
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
touching skilfully,
mysteriously
her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,
i and my life will shut very beautifully,
suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility
whose texture compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens,
only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses nobody,
not even the rain,has such small hands