#PoetryTakeMeAway
"The slender moon pours a sacred light,
A veil woven of light silver,
On the marble steps where the Shadow comes to dream
The iridescent silk trail of a pearl chariot.
For the soft swans that skim the reeds
With hulls of feathers almost luminous,
An infinite rose of snow unfurls
Whose petals make circles on the water…
Is this living?… Or a desert of ecstatic pleasure,
Where the luminous water’s weak heartbeat dies,
Wearing away the arcane threshold of crystal echoes…
The confused flesh of tender roses quivers
If a cry's fatal diamond
Cracks the immense fable with a thread of light."
Paul Valéry