You Are So Immense Poem by L.B. Temuco

I watched the sun creep into your long limbs
to reach your heart, I watched your breasts rise like warm honey

You are so immense, I can feel everything
your face, your voice and dress fall on me, like a wild rose

I made the shadows retreat, so you could fly to me
through the smoke of your eyes, through the long sleep of sad tides

Your memory has not yet arrived, it is still damp
and flooded, like the body of a sunken ship

Oh, breathless light, make brief this strange desire
save my bitten eyes from the cold lantern of your years

In the hours of your silence, I am forgotten
deserted like atoms falling from a tree, like a rainless cloud

You cover so much distance, your senses become thin and loose like strings
I listen for your soft feet, twisting a strand of your black hair in my hands