Avertissement.(Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Her opinion about how to love a man wholly: with your head lowered and cold-eyed in depression. As she says, it is too easy to fall in love with a handsome, godlike, tanned surfer in the bright sunlight of a beach.
The two stanzas contrast with each other: sadness and depression in the first: a handsome, easy-to-love surfer in the second. Emotional (the first) and physical (second) . A brilliant poem.