such small hands

Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility:whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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Il tuo più tenue sguardo
facilmente
mi aprirà
benché abbia chiuso me stesso
come dita sempre mi apri
petalo per petalo
come la primavera fa
toccando accortamente
misteriosamente
la sua prima rosa
e io non so
quello che c'è in te
che chiude e apre
solo qualcosa in me
comprende
che è più profonda
la voce dei tuoi occhi
di tutte le rose
nessuno
neanche la pioggia
ha così piccole mani

Edward Estlin Cummings