En tu pelo está el perfume de la noche
y en tus ojos su tormentosa luz.
El sabor de la noche vibra en tu boca palpitante. 1
Mi corazón, clavado sobre la noche de abenuz.

La noche está en tu frente morena, erguida y frágil
y en tus brazos que un vello sutil aterciopela.
La noche está en recónditos parajes de tu cuerpo:
-la noche perfumada de nardo y de canela... 2

La noche está en tus ojos brunos, iridiscente:
constelaciones bullen en su vivaz burbuja.
La noche está en tus ojos brunos, cuando los cierras: 3
noche definitiva, noche agorera, noche bruja.

En tus oídos, toda la música de la noche
se refugia, y te arrulla con su vago susurro.
En tus oídos, toda la música de la noche,
y en tu voz, y en tu risa, y en tu tácito llanto...

En tu frente, su angustia latente insomne yerra,
y en tu pecho amoroso su tormentosa luz.
En la noche sortílega, sortílego discurro...
El sabor de la noche vibra en tu boca palpitante.
Tus manos son dos pálidas lunas sobre mi frente.

Clavos en ti me clavan, oh Noche deleitosa!
Noche... ¡tibio madero de mi cruz! 4

When I think of those days, I only
remember gathering wood in the cold
in my black coat so I could get a fire going
in the cast iron of a gray early morning;
I dream what it is to be a man lying
beside a delicate woman, sad and quiet,
playing the mandolin, looking at her as
if she were a couple of plums together like
a cluster within reaching distance on the branch;
thinking of the lunar dust of her face, and how
her fingers were like feathers; I heard
the silence of the mill wheel not turning
in the stream and the wild turkeys not drinking;
I knew they had hypnotized themselves wide-
eyed and staring into the steel ax of the creek.

Moon is not beautiful
She doth not shine golden
She drops weakened, white light
on creatures craving sleep

She sits there and stares
At a frightened little world
with her cold, chilling glow
and a hostility deep

It's ingrained in her soul
to make the nimbus look fearsome
ghastly and pale
like a place to hide demons

She debases belief
We forget our star-wish
and thick, we go fishing
at nighttime

And then, Moon releases
a loneliness, cold
and we can't elude
we're stuck in the hole of
This brooding solitude mood
and its tole.

There's no escaping anytime soon
As we start to fear
the burning sun
And I suppose, this is my loathing of Moon.

Moon is contagious.
She offers the aid of her presence, unfailing
When we're washed down like willows, weakened
and wailing

And we can sail under her
Just as the dime
It's a lie that the night's
only clock-start for crime

When she's out from the hiding place
to be bright as Moon can
There's not a direction
No footpath
No overworked plan

And when I remember:
Beauty needs not a rival
I suppose I'll be loving Moon, soon again.