Metamorfoz

A Poem by Salvador Dali -1937 "Metamorphosis Of Narcissus"

Narcissus
in his immobility
absorbed by his reflection with the digestive slowness of carnivorous plants
becomes invisible.
There remains of him only the hallucinatingly white oval of his head
his head again more tender
his head, chrysalis of hidden biological designs
his head held up by the tips of the water's fingers
at the tips of the fingers
of the insensate hand
of the terrible hand
of the mortal hand
of his own reflection.
When that head slits
when that head splits
when that head bursts
it will be the flower
the new Narcissus
Gala - my narcissus.

(Gala was also the name of Dali's wife.)