1. As if the rose in leaf and blossom
Were the blushing cheeks of one who has excused herself, bitten by a mouth

2. Or the blonde has kissed her and turned
Her cool satisfaction not to flow on

3. So it bites her frozen with a mouth
Containing the opposites of coolness and embers

4. Until moisture appeared on his cheeks
Relaying the two states of mouth and wine

5. So he tore the pocket of a silken robe
And loosened beneath it buttons of pearl

6. And said, “Smell the fold as it has ripped
Upon the rose of arched breasts and blossoming buttons

7. See the pearls surrounding a pearl
In a cup of aquamarine in the platter of my chest