Let Me Lie with You

Kiss by Ivan Koulakov

Let me lie with you side by side

Within the trembling fingers of dreams

Our mouths filled with ferns and flowers

Our eyes wide with stars and sky,

Reclining beneath a generous tree

Whose leaves storm-shiver in our hair

Our heads rolling upon no axes

Our legs climbing circular stairs,

While the earth vibrates its discordant waves

Into the haunted hollows of the night

And we draw the heavens about us like a cloak

And the gods watch over us with phantom eyes,

And pain too pained with pain

Curls up into a ball and goes to sleep

And rain too dense with rain

Rolls up into a storm and makes to fall,

And we watch the sky crackle

And liquefy and glow

And we watch the sky cry

When the clouds explode.