It was after the night
when you slept off
next to me
too tired to change dress
that I woke up for the first time
at daybreak
A white light was languidly
crawling upon
Your body from which
the blanket had slipped away
You lay in the open space
In the light of
The daybreak
With bare breasts
Like a whale emerging slowly
from the depths of the sea
above the water surface
Or
Like a leopard
unhurriedly exiting
a bush
Or
like an idol
that had not yet been installed in the sanctum
Was this the body
I had swayed over
With such impunity,
I stood startled
for a moment
Translated by R. Abilash
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