The garden of earthly delight


As Bosch looks with his painter's brush
into the garden of earthly delight
deeply, like a hawk, in detail,
and from the round glistening membrane of the eyes
reflects a glass ball, the words
of lovers, a closed world where hands,
one resting on the thigh, the other on the belly
measure the vibration of thought on the skin
and feel the blessed echo of conception:

Happiness creates phrases that withdraw
into a glass ball, when a garden grows
inside there, when speech encapsulates
one world and responds to another
outside the glass.
It's far from the glass shell to another planet
through empty space, through language without signs,
when imagined reality, the created world
floats inside the glass ball, in Bosch's painting.



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