lunes, 24 de julio de 2017

PYGMALION AND GALATEA

Breathless precision of stone melts to the bliss of flesh;

The sculptor's rapture creates a lover's discovery,


While the slow sweep of his hand keeps in its singleness 


Both blade that cuts away and smoothing gentleness.


Almost his touch is a search for dust of ivory;


Almost her jumping pulse is his workshop's purpose.


But the moth-soft mimicry of internal passageways


Is incomplete. The summer-sweet susurrus at her mouth,

Though sent by Venus, is a tremble of wordlessness,

Their alabaster couplings her sole success.

He will turn philosopher when he learns her selflessness.

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