To see the skin

Of your body so beautiful

Shimmer like silk!

Indolent darling, how I love To see the skin Of your body so beautiful Shimmer like silk!

Upon your heavy head of hair With its acrid scents, Adventurous, odorant sea With blue and brown waves,

Like a vessel that awakens To the morning wind, My dreamy soul sets sail For a distant sky.

Your eyes where nothing is revealed Of bitter or sweet, Are two cold jewels where are mingled Iron and gold.

To see you walking in cadence With fine abandon, One would say a snake which dances On the end of a staff.

Under the weight of indolence Your child-like head sways Gently to and fro like the head Of a young elephant,

And your body stretches and leans Like a slender ship That rolls from side to side and dips Its yards in the sea.

Like a stream swollen by the thaw Of rumbling glaciers, When the water of your mouth rises To the edge of your teeth,

.@AlbanyDown Announce New Album + UK Dates + Feeding The Flame Reviewed Here

ALBANY DOWN have passion in their hearts … For sure. They can gather a lot of bile & fury when the time seems right. It seems right at the moment!

They are quintessential blues artists of the 21st century …

Readers will know that we have been fans of the London band for many years now.

We highly rated their “Not Over Yet” album which, we thought, spanned the gap between vintage era bluesand the…