Chapter 14 dancing snake
Lazy baby, how I love to see
you are slim,
Like a quivering fabric,
The skin is glowing!
You are stimulating, fragrant
thick long hair,
like a turbulent ocean
blue, brown spray,
As if blowing lightly with the morning breeze
waking ship,
my brooding mind sails to
the far shore.
your eyes show nothing
tender or sad,
This is a pair of cold jewelry,
Mix gold and iron.
I saw you walking east and west,
Free and easy beauty,
a dancing snake so to speak
Dogging at the stick end.
Your lazy, overwhelmed,
childlike head,
With the softness of a baby elephant,
keep swaying,
Your body bends and lies down,
like a swift ship,
Shaking left and right, facing the waves obliquely,
Put the yard forward.
roaring like a melting glacier
make the rivers swell,
When your saliva is full,
on the edge of the teeth,
I feel like drinking bohemian wine.
liquid heaven,
Strictly complacent, throwing away the stars,
Fill my heart.
Translated by Zheng Kelu
This is one of the poems in praise of her lover "Black Venus" Jeanne Duval.