One Evening

An eagle descends from this sky white with archangels And you sustain me Let them tremble a long while all these lamps Pray pray for me The city’s metallic and it’s the only star Drowned in your blue eyes When the tramways run spurting pale fire Over the twittering birds And all that trembles in your eyes of my dreams That a lonely man drinks Under flames of gas red like a false dawn O clothed your arm is lifted See the speaker stick his tongue out at the listeners A phantom has committed suicide The apostle of the fig-tree hangs and slowly rots Let us play this love out then to the end Bells with clear chimes announce your birth See The streets are garlanded and the palms advance Towards thee