Did you see anything when you undressed her Poem by Dane Zajc

When you undressed her blind

Night butterflies broke into crystals
They were masked robbers

Did you see her stepping out of the split crystal
Did you see her in the blue lightning
Did you see her in the ozone cloud
Did you smell her in your brain
Did you smell her in your spine
Did all the stairways of your body surge
from her scent

Did you hear her
when with a highpitched
when with a hoarse
when with the all of the above sound
when she screamed
Did you hear her farewell when she stepped into
the crystal
When she locked herself in the crystal

You lay on sheets
You lay on your stomach
You felt strong you felt lucent you felt you were
blood you felt

You heard the night butterflies' blood
the dark rustling in the dark
You saw sheet lightning in the rustling
the golden glitter of the burglarized crystals
the crystals' soul in the blood of night butterflies