Modern Love Xliii (Letters Of Snow On A Green Ocean) Poem by Liberatore Suffoletta

Never to understand the honeysuckle
dark red hibiscus of your womb.
know that you tormented a blue rose’s forgetful
desires for love between your teeth, your eyes.
your mountain shoulders, your seagull legs
as thousands of little dancing fireflies fell asleep
on the moon of your forehead,
while like daylight, evening, night, I embraced
your waist, desiring your plum mouth, your soul.
your spirit, your perfumed color
all of you that summer brought.
Between plaster walls and mountain flowers
Periwinkle bachelor buttons
Lilac loose strife,
your smile, your glance, your breast
was an inviting cool pool of sesame seeds.
I sought in my heart to write your
name with letters of snow
on your green ocean
'Love'

'Love', 'Love':
garden of wondrous agony,
your body elusive as always,
you are somewhere again,
talking with someone, somewhere,
as the blue blood of your veins remains in my heart,
as your purple tongue already dances my death.

Upon well trodden paths this winter
I shall follow your green night,
your soft footsteps of seagulls
to a green bench,
losing your tracks, again
in the warmth of spring
losing all of you,
faithless dream,
in summer
while the hull of the moon
plows through purple clouds
and piercing starlight
leave traces of warm dew
on misty roses.