The hook.
We learned all the pleasures of the tongue
before we knew each other's names,
long after all the pain had come.

Imagine the shock of a fish
when a hook finds its mouth
and pierces it roof
then the sigh it heaves when it shakes it loose.
Our first kiss was like this.

I used to swim in open waters
like a lazy cod without a thought
of your delicious bait.
But time lets our fears loose
and they drift with no logic,
likе a cork on the sea
a role both sad and comic.

I twistеd like an unruly marlin
so I could love you this madly
and so today I am lucid as a shark
that all the world is afraid of.

I used to think that life
would be frightening
if one's eyes were so haunted
by seeing everything.

But I still dream, even if I don't sleep
and my thighs get wet
at the thought of my head
between your legs.

With you my lips act stupid as a grouper's and I make no excuses.