BLACK SYMPHONY  

Eve was hanging her dead from the window
so that the air might lick the faces
full of scars
She was looking at those faces and was smiling
while the wind propelled her breasts
to the worm eaten night
An orgy of aromas shook the silence
that she wanted for herself
and between whispers and good-byes
a blind cricket was breaking the strings
of his antique violins
No one neared Eve
when she suckled her dead
the cholera and the cold
were fighting over their adolescence
the orgasm gave passage to the horror
desire to the blood
and to small violent creatures
detached from their stomachs
populating the night-falls
with conflict and nightmares
Soon
when all ended calmly
and the shadows finally
regressed to their origin
Eve guarded her dead
kissing them on the mouth
and she slept naked atop them
until the next full moon

© 2007 Mario Meléndez