tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63914593456300220762024-03-13T09:06:50.656-03:00DENISE LEVERTOV en castellanoSThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-8934510740135299942015-12-24T10:13:00.000-03:002015-12-24T10:13:46.695-03:00LA ACÓLITA<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">La gran cocina está casi a oscuras.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A través del plano de la luz constante, difusa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">alimentan fogatas diferentes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">La hierba cuelga de las vigas su musgo negro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sobre la mesa, con las manos enharinadas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sopesa las futuras hogazas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Levadura y harina, agua y sal,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en el pan que hornea, enfría y corta<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en lo que piensa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No es en el horno en lo que piensa,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sino en el modo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en fragancia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Quiere poner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en cada pan;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hornear dentro de una hogaza una maldición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">y en otra, las palabras que rompen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">los hechizos y transforman en ellos mismos a los héroes;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ella quiere hacer pan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">que sea más que pan.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro.</b></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The large kitchen is almost dark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Across the plain of even, diffused light,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tend separate campfires.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Herbs dangle their Spanish moss from rafters.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At the table, floury hands<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">kneading dough, feet planted<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a woman ponders the loaves-to-be.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yeast and flour, water and salt,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">have met in the huge bowl.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It's not<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">bread she's thinking of,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but the way<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the dough rises and has a life of its own,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not the oven she's thinking of<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but the way<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the sour smell changes<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to fragrance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She wants to put<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into each loaf;<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to bake a curse into one loaf,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into another, the words that break<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">evil spells and release<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">transformed heroes into their selves;<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">bread that is more than bread.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">yo me siento en silencio en el cuarto de atrás<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">intentando calmar mi mente de su parloteo,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">rumores y sucesos, y encontrar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">vida, migas de vida, para nutrirla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">profiera oráculos inhumanos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><i>©</i></span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px; text-align: right;">Denise Levertov</b><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px; text-align: right;"> (</span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px; text-align: right;">Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 28px; text-align: right;">, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979).</span></span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-89785001177373038452015-04-29T23:52:00.000-03:002015-06-24T15:33:48.634-03:00CÓMO SERÍA MI CASA SI FUERA UNA PERSONA<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Esa persona sería un animal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Y ese animal sería grande; por lo menos, grande</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">como un caballo de tiro. Rumiaría, como las vacas,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">con varios estómagos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Nadie podría seguir</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">lo</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hasta la espesura del matorral para presenciar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sus hábitos de apareo. Escondido por el pelaje,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">el sexo sería difícil de determinar.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Definitivamente desalentaría</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">la investigación. Pero, si no lo molestaran,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sería un animal bueno, amigable,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">confiado como un pichoncito. Su inteligencia</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sería de un orden superior,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ni humana ni animal, élfica.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Y ronronearía. Aunque, claro,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tratándose de una casa, tendrías que sentarte en su regazo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</i></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What My House Would Be Like If It Were A Person</span></b></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This person would be an animal.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This animal would be large, at least as large</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">as a workhorse. It would chew cud, like cows,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">having several stomachs.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No one could follow it</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into the dense brush to witness</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">its mating habits. Hidden by fur,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">its sex would be hard to determine.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Definitely it would discourage</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">investigation. But it would be, if not teased,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a kind, amiable animal,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">confiding as a chickadee. Its intelligence</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">would be of a high order,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">neither human nor animal, elvish.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And it would purr, though of course,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it being a house, you would sit in its lap,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not it in yours.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(de <i>Poems 1972-1982, </i>New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2002).</span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-71185821006989857022015-04-25T23:25:00.000-03:002019-11-03T10:47:42.533-03:00EL SABIO<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Déjenlo, dejen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">al mundo girar,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">las cosas son así.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">El tres de mayo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">hubo niebla; el cuatro, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">quién sabe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Barré la carne de la rosa, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tirale </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">los pedazos a la lluvia.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Nunca se come</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">hasta el último bocado, dice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">que el corazón es amargo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Él es así, él sabe </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">del mundo y del tiempo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Sage</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The cat is eating the roses: </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>that's the way he is.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Don't stop him, don't stop</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the world going round, </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>that's the way things are.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The third of May</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>was misty; fourth of May</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>who knows. Sweep</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the rose-meat up, throw the bits</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>out in the rain.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>He never eats</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>every crumb, says</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the hearts are bitter.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>That's the way he is, he knows</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the world and the weather. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">(de <i>Collected Earlier Poems: 1940-1960</i>, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Por años, los muertos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">el peso de lo que no
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sostenía un instante esa
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">se para detrás y brevemente
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">el peso de una
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pero las correas, y el
dolor, seguían ahí—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">aunque se puede
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memoria malvada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tira de golpe hacia
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">De a poco llega la
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">de acá para allá, chocando
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pero ya no como
visiones. No están más<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en el arpa del océano—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ausencia el que lo vio, lo percibieron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mucho, los que hace mucho están ausentes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">y miran desde nuestros
propios ojos abiertos.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">THE CHANGE<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For years
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">were the
terrible weight of their absence,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the weight
of what one had not put in their hands.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Rarely a
visitation--dream or vision--<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">lifted that
load for a moment, like someone<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">standing
behind one and briefly taking<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the heft of
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But the
straps remained, and the ache—<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">though you
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">except when
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pulls
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Slowly
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some time the burden<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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what you need anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How flimsy
to be without it, ungrounded, blown<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hither and
thither, colliding with stern solids.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And then
they begin to return, the dead:<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but not as
visions. They're not <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">separate
now, not to be seen, no<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">it's they
who see: they displace<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for seconds,
for minutes, maybe longer,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the
mourner's gaze with their own. Just now,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">that shift
of light, arpeggio <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on ocean’s
harp—<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not the
accustomed bearer <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of heavy
absence saw it, it was perceived <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">by the
long-dead, long-absent, <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">looking out
from within one's opened eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(de <i>Sands of the Well</i> [2da. Ed.], N.Y.: New Directions, 1998).</span></span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-11126388240592958832015-03-31T16:41:00.002-03:002015-03-31T20:33:59.108-03:00UN ÁRBOL HABLA DE ORFEO<div class="MsoNormal">
<b> </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amanecer blanco. Quietud. Cuando empezó el rumor, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> lo confundí con una
brisa marina que llegaba a nuestro valle <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> con susurros de
sal, de horizontes sin árboles. Pero la bruma blanca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">no se agitó, las hojas de mis hermanos seguían tendidas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">inmóviles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Después, el rumor se acercó—y mis ramas
exteriores <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">se estremecieron como si</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, demasiado cerca,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">abajo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">hubieran encendido un fuego y las puntas <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">se empezaran a secar y a enroscar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Así y todo, no estaba
asustado, sino<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> en extremo alerta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yo fui el primero en verlo, porque crecí<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> en el
pastizal de la ladera, detrás del bosque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Me pareció que era un hombre: los dos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">tallos en movimiento, el tronco corto, las dos <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ramas flexibles, cada una terminada en cinco <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ramitas sin hojas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y la cabeza coronada por follaje marrón o dorado,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con una cara no como la cara picuda de los pájaros,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> sino mas bien como la de una flor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Llevaba un bulto hecho de<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">alguna rama que doblaron cuando todavía estaba verde, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con guías de enredadera tensadas a través. De ahí,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">al pulsarlo, y de su voz,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">que a diferencia de la del viento no precisaba <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">de nuestras hojas y ramas para completar el sonido,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> venía
el rumor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pero no era más un rumor
(él se había acercado y<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">detenido en mi primera sombra), era una ola que me bañaba</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Symbol","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> como si la
lluvia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
subiera desde abajo y alrededor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> en lugar de caer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Y lo que yo sentía ya no era un temblor seco:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> parecía que
cantaba cuando cantaba él, parecía saber<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> lo que sabe
la alondra; toda mi savia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> arremetía
hacia el sol, que ya estaba alto,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> la niebla se había levantado, el
pasto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">se secaba, y mis raíces seguían sintiendo la humedad de la
música <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">en lo profundo de la tierra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Él se
acercó un poco más, se recostó en mi tronco:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> la
corteza se estremeció como una hoja al abrirse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">¡La Música! No hubo una rama en mí que no</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">temblara de miedo y de alegría.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Después, cuando cantó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">no eran solo sonidos los que formaban la música:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">él habló. Y yo escuché, como ningún árbol, y el lenguaje<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> penetró mis raíces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> desde la
tierra,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> mi
tronco<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> desde el
aire,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> los
poros de mis brotes más verdes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> suave como
el rocío,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y no hubo palabra que él cantara cuyo significado yo
ignorase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Me habló de viajes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> de dónde
van el sol y la luna cuando quedamos a oscuras,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> de un viaje bajo
tierra que soñaba hacer alguna vez<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">más allá de las raíces…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Habló de los sueños del hombre, de las guerras, las pasiones,
los pesares,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> y yo, un
árbol, comprendí las palabras —ah, si parecía que<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">mi corteza sólida iba a abrirse como se abre un pimpollo <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> que creció
demasiado rápido en primavera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">cuando lo hiere una helada tardía.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Cantó
del fuego,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">el que los árboles temen, y yo, un árbol, me deleité en sus
llamas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Me brotaron capullos en mitad del verano.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Como si su lira
(ahora conocía el nombre)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> fuese tanto la escarcha
como el fuego, subieron sus acordes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">arrasando hasta mi corona.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Fui
semilla otra vez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Fui helecho en
el estanque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Fui
carbón.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Y en el corazón de mi madera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(así de cerca estuve de convertirme en hombre o en dios)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> había una especie
de silencio, de enfermedad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> algo, como
eso que los hombres llaman hastío,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
algo, dijo él,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(y el poema bajó un tono, como un río sobre las piedras)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> que puede
enfriar una vela<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> pese
al vaho de su ardor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fue entonces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> cuando en la gloria de su fuerza, que <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> me alcanzó y me cambió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> y creí que iba a voltearme,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">que el cantor me empezó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> a
abandonar. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lentamente</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">salió
de mi sombra del</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> mediodía</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> a plena
luz,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">las palabras saltaban y bailaban </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sobre sus hombros</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y para mí</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">el
río de tonos de la lira de a poco se fue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">convirtiendo de nuevo</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>en un rumor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Y yo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> aterrado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> pero
sin dudar <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">de</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> lo
que debía hacerse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con angustia, con urgencia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> arranqué
de la tierra raíz por raíz,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con el suelo retumbando y agrietándose, y el musgo hecho
pedazos—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y detrás de mí, los otros: mis hermanos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">olvidados desde el alba. Ellos también <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">habían oído desde el bosque <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y tiraban con dolor de sus raíces <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">bajo una capa de mil años de hojas muertas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> apartando las
rocas,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> liberándose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> de su<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>profundidad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cualquiera habría pensado que íbamos a perder el sonido de
la lira,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> y </span>del canto<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con tan terribles ruidos de tormenta, donde no había tormenta,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ni </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">más</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">viento que el agitarse de nuestras</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ramas,
nuestros troncos que hendían el aire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Pero
¡la música!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> La música llegaba
hasta nosotros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Torpemente,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> tropezando con
nuestras raíces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> haciendo
crujir las hojas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>como
respuesta,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">avanzamos, seguimos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Todo el día seguimos, colina arriba y colina abajo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Aprendimos
a bailar,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">porque él paraba, donde el terreno era llano,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>y
las palabras que decía<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">nos enseñaban a saltar y a girar para un lado y para el otro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">alrededor nuestro a trazar
figuras con el diseño de la lira.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">El cantor <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> al vernos, reía
hasta llorar de contento.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Al atardecer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">vinimos a este lugar donde estoy ahora, a esta loma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">con su arboleda añosa, que entonces apenas era pasto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Bajo la
última luz de aquel día su canto se fue volviendo <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">despedida.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Él calmó
nuestro anhelo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Devolvió nuestras
raíces secas a la tierra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y las regó: toda la noche una lluvia de música tan leve<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> que
casi <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">no podíamos</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> oírla </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">en la oscuridad </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sin luna.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Para el amanecer se había ido.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Desde
entonces estamos aquí,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">en nuestra vida nueva.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Esperamos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
Y él no vuelve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dicen que emprendió su viaje bajo la tierra, y que perdió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">lo que buscaba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Dicen
que lo derribaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">y cortaron sus miembros para hacer leña.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Y dicen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">que su cabeza todavía cantaba y que, cantando, la arrojaron
al mar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Puede que no vuelva nunca.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Pero lo que vivimos sí<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">vuelve a nosotros.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Vemos
más.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
Sentimos, a medida que aumentan nuestros anillos,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">algo que nos tira de las ramas, que nos extiende las hojas <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
más distantes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">todavía más allá.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Ni el viento
ni los pájaros,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> suenan más pobres, sino más claros,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">recordándonos nuestra agonía, y de qué modo bailamos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">¡La música!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Tree Telling of
Orpheus<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">White dawn. Stillness. When the rippling began<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I took
it for sea-wind, coming to our valley with rumors<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> of
salt, of treeless horizons. But the white fog<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">didn't stir; the leaves of my brothers remained
outstretched,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">unmoving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
Yet the rippling drew nearer—and then<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my own outermost branches began to tingle,
almost as if<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">fire had been lit below them, too close, and
their twig-tips<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">were drying and curling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Yet I was not afraid,
only<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> deeply alert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was the first to see him, for I grew<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
out on the pasture slope, beyond the forest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was a man, it seemed: the two<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">moving stems, the short trunk, the two<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">arm-branches, flexible, each with five leafless<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
twigs at their
ends,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and the head that's crowned by brown or gold
grass,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">bearing a face not like the beaked face of a
bird,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
more like a flower's.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He carried a
burden made of<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">some cut branch bent while it was green,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">strands of a vine tight-stretched across it.
From this,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when he touched it, and from his voice<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">which unlike the wind's voice had no need of
our<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">leaves and branches to complete its sound,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> came
the ripple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But it was now no longer a ripple (he had come
near and<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">stopped in my first shadow) it was a wave that
bathed me<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
as if rain<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> rose from below and
around me<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> instead of falling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And what I felt was no longer a dry tingling:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
I seemed to be singing as he sang, I seemed to know<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
what the lark knows; all my sap<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
was mounting towards the sun that by now<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
had risen, the mist was rising, the grass<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">was drying, yet my roots felt music moisten
them<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">deep under earth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
He came still closer, leaned on my trunk:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
the bark thrilled like a leaf still-folded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Music! There was no twig of me not<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
trembling with
joy and fear.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then as he sang<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">it was no longer sounds only that made the
music:<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">he spoke, and as no tree listens I listened,
and language<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> came into my roots<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> out of the
earth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> into my bark<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> out of the
air,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> into the pores of my
greenest shoots<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> gently as
dew<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and there was no word he sang but I knew its
meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He told me of journeys,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
of where sun and moon go while we stand in dark,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> of an
earth-journey he dreamed he would take some day<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">deeper than roots...<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He told of the dreams of man, wars, passions,
griefs,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
and I, a tree, understood words—ah, it seemed<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">my thick bark would split like a sapling's that<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> grew too
fast in the spring<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">when a late frost wounds it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Fire
he sang,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that trees fear, and I, a tree, rejoiced in its
flames.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New buds broke forth from me though it was full
summer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> As
though his lyre (now I knew its name)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
were both frost and fire, its chords flamed<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">up to the crown of me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I was seed again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I was fern in
the swamp.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I was
coal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And at the heart of my wood<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(so close I was to becoming man or a god)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
there was a kind of silence, a kind of sickness,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> something akin to what men call boredom,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
something<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(the poem descended a scale, a stream over
stones)<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
that gives to a candle a coldness<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> in the mist of its burning,
he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was then,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
when in the blaze of his power that<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> reached me and
changed me<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
I thought I should fall my length<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">that the singer began<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> to leave me. Slowly<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
moved from my noon shadow<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> to open
light,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">words leaping and dancing over his shoulders<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">back to me<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
rivery sweep of lyre-tones becoming<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">slowly again<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
ripple.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
in terror<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> but not in doubt of<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> what
I must do<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in anguish, in haste,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> wrenched from the earth
root after root,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing
asunder—<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and behind me the others: my brothers<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">forgotten since dawn. In the forest<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">they too had heard,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and were pulling their roots in pain<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">out of a thousand years' layers of dead leaves,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
rolling the rocks away,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> breaking
themselves<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> out
of<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
their depths.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You would have thought we would lose the sound
of the lyre,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> of the singing<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">so dreadful the storm-sounds were, where there
was no storm,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> no wind but the rush of
our<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
branches moving, our trunks breasting the air.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But the music!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> The music
reached us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Clumsily,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
stumbling over our own roots,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> rustling
our leaves<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
in answer,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we moved, we followed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All day we followed, up hill and down.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We learned to dance,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">for he would stop, where the ground was flat,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> and
words he said<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">taught us to leap and to wind in and out<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">around one another in figures the lyre's measure designed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The singer<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
laughed till he wept to see us, he was so glad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
At sunset<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">we came to this place I stand in, this knoll<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with its ancient grove that was bare grass
then.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
In the last light of that day his song became<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">farewell.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
He stilled our longing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
He sang our sun-dried roots back into earth,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">watered them: all-night rain of music so quiet<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
we could almost<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
not hear it in the<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> moonless
dark.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By dawn he was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We have stood here since,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">in our new life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
We have waited.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He does not
return.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is said he made his earth-journey, and lost<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">what he sought.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
It is said they felled him<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and cut up his limbs for firewood.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> And it is
said<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">his head still sang and was swept out to sea
singing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps he will not return.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> But what we have
lived<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">comes back to us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
We see more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> We feel, as our
rings increase,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">something that lifts our branches, that
stretches our furthest<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> leaf-tips<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">further.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">
The wind, the birds,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> do not sound poorer
but clearer,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">recalling our agony, and the way we danced.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The music!<span style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
<br />
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<br /></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
(de <i>Poems 1968-1972</i>,<i> </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #171717; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.3999996185303px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px; text-align: right;">New Directions Publishing, New York, 1987)</span></div>
SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-66298959705769584662014-12-27T13:08:00.000-03:002014-12-27T13:09:37.487-03:00POEMAS DE OLGA<div class="WordSection1">
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<b>i<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Arrodillada junto a la estufa de gas, </div>
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desvistiéndose,<o:p></o:p></div>
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chamuscándose lujuriosamente, rascando</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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en los flancos aceitunados la marca roja<o:p></o:p></div>
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del cinturón—<o:p></o:p></div>
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(Y la hermanita en la cama<o:p></o:p></div>
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con ojos como cuentas <o:p></o:p></div>
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o entredormida, ¿era yo? Mi cabeza,<o:p></o:p></div>
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una cámara—)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dieciséis. Sus pechos<o:p></o:p></div>
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redondos, redondos,<o:p></o:p></div>
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de pezones oscuros—<o:p></o:p></div>
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la que desde hace dos meses,<o:p></o:p></div>
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es huesos y jirones de piel bajo la tierra.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>ii<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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El agudo<o:p></o:p></div>
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de insistencia agobiante, líneas<o:p></o:p></div>
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entre las cejas en alto –<o:p></o:p></div>
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atormentada, atormentada –<o:p></o:p></div>
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la piel alrededor de las uñas<o:p></o:p></div>
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una llaga, de tanto morder –<o:p></o:p></div>
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¿Querías gritarle al mundo<o:p></o:p></div>
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para que entrara en razón,<o:p></o:p></div>
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no es cierto? –empujar<o:p></o:p></div>
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a los pobres a la república </div>
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socialista de la alegría– <o:p></o:p></div>
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Qué rabia<o:p></o:p></div>
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y qué vergüenza de la humanidad<br />
te azotaron a los nueve,<br />
cuando viste las casas de la calle Ley</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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y supiste que eran <i>pocilgas</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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mientras yo, a la misma edad, <o:p></o:p></div>
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te provocaba, admirando<o:p></o:p></div>
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la solidez de la arquitectura, cercana<o:p></o:p></div>
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a mil ochocientos cincuenta, y veía<o:p></o:p></div>
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dignidad en esos pórticos blanqueados.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Negra, negra,<o:p></o:p></div>
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había una vela<o:p></o:p></div>
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blanca en tu corazón.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>iii<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>i<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i>Todo fluye<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i> </i>le
murmuró a mi niñez,<o:p></o:p></div>
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yendo y viniendo por el pasto donde marionetas
humanas<o:p></o:p></div>
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ensayaban destinos ese verano,<o:p></o:p></div>
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impulsada ante las apariencias extrañas por el azote
de su voluntad–<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>todo fluye </i><span lang="EN-US">–</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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yo levanté la vista desde mi sillón de caña de Osito Más Chiquito<o:p></o:p></div>
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y supe que las palabras provenían de un libro<o:p></o:p></div>
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y las sentí ajenas a mí<o:p></o:p></div>
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pero ligadas a otras, que adorábamos,<o:p></o:p></div>
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de nuestro libro de himnos– <i>El tiempo</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>como una corriente que no cesa/ arrastra a todos sus hijos</i><i> con ella</i>–<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ahora, como si en mi camino soplaran humo o dulzura,<o:p></o:p></div>
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inhalo una sensación de su vitalidad en ese instante,<o:p></o:p></div>
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sintiendo, soñando, esperando y conociendo como nadie el
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una chica en el jardín, el mismo cuadrado alquímico<o:p></o:p></div>
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en el que crecí yo, y que a veces se nos hacía<o:p></o:p></div>
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demasiado chico para nuestros destinos grandiosos–<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pero lo terrible<o:p></o:p></div>
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estaba en ella, como un frenesí, estaba en el río oscuro e
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que se acercaba y contra el que levantó diques, poniéndose<o:p></o:p></div>
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a tamizar cenizas todo un invierno después de la misa de la
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clasificando el desorden habitual de su escritorio, basando<o:p></o:p></div>
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sus versos en <i>El año
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esas discusiones interminables, tratando<o:p></o:p></div>
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de manipular las vidas hasta el desastre...para cambiar,<o:p></o:p></div>
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¡cambiar el curso del río! Qué fervor por el orden<o:p></o:p></div>
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desordenó su peregrinar— para que durante años <o:p></o:p></div>
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fuera a esconderse siempre entre desconocidos, esperando<br />
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reordenar todos los misterios bajo una luz nueva.</div>
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<b>iii<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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La negra, íncuba <span lang="EN-US">–</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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apareció<o:p></o:p></div>
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montada en la angustia como los Tártaros en sus yeguas<o:p></o:p></div>
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sobre el rastrojo de los años malos.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Un año de esos<o:p></o:p></div>
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cuando ya
no sabía si estaba viva o muerta<o:p></o:p></div>
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la soñé<o:p></o:p></div>
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ojerosa y con las mejillas rojas<o:p></o:p></div>
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iluminada por el fuego<o:p></o:p></div>
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de un puesto de mariscos de un barrio pobre —<o:p></o:p></div>
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la noción <o:p></o:p></div>
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de quién era, de
cómo sería andar —bajo su piel,<o:p></o:p></div>
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bajo su pelo negro<o:p></o:p></div>
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teñido de rubio—<o:p></o:p></div>
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con las oscilaciones de la luna,<o:p></o:p></div>
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en la vida que yo siento desplegarse, no fluir, en los años
peregrinos.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>iv<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Estabas en tu cama de hospital, tendida y<o:p></o:p></div>
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enamorada, con los odios<o:p></o:p></div>
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que te habían seguido como<o:p></o:p></div>
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la cola de un cometa, consumidos<o:p></o:p></div>
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igual que tus desastres nacidos del amor,<o:p></o:p></div>
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consumidos<o:p></o:p></div>
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mientras el dolor y las drogas<o:p></o:p></div>
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peleaban adentro tuyo como dos hermanas—<o:p></o:p></div>
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flotabas en un mar<o:p></o:p></div>
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de amor y de dolor — y cómo te gustó siempre<o:p></o:p></div>
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esa tonada “Abajo están <o:p></o:p></div>
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los brazos eternos”—<o:p></o:p></div>
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todas las historias,<o:p></o:p></div>
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consumidas hasta<o:p></o:p></div>
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el hueso enfermo, excepto<o:p></o:p></div>
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esa llama noble.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>i<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>En un verde jardín donde yazga —</i></div>
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le pusiste palabras a una canción tan triste<o:p></o:p></div>
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que se abrió paso en mi vida como a través de un bosque.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Como a través de un bosque, entre abedules, con la luz y la
sombra<o:p></o:p></div>
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deslizándose un instante en los claros, escondida tras las
matas de muérdago<o:p></o:p></div>
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tu vida sopla en mí En Valentines<o:p></o:p></div>
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hay una raíz que sobresale del césped a varios metros del
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Decías que la podíamos levantar como una puerta-trampa<o:p></o:p></div>
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y bajar la escalera hasta otro país<o:p></o:p></div>
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donde vivir sin padre ni madre<o:p></o:p></div>
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y sin extrañar el mundo de arriba. <i>Los pájaros</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>cantaban dulcemente, oh una canción, en medio del día,<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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y en las tardes calurosas entrábamos a las iglesias mudas de Mid
Essex <o:p></o:p></div>
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a comulgar con las efigies de los caballeros y sus damas<o:p></o:p></div>
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y con los perros esbeltos dormidos a sus pies,<o:p></o:p></div>
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contra la piedra tan fría— <i>En la juventud</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>está el placer, en la juventud está el placer.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>ii<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Bajo las nubes del otoño, bajo la vastedad<o:p></o:p></div>
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blanca del cielo invernal, te fuiste a pie<o:p></o:p></div>
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el año que estuviste más sola<o:p></o:p></div>
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de vuelta a las calles de antes, otra vez viendo <o:p></o:p></div>
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los carteles que apuntan a Theydon Garnon<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">a Stapleford
Abbots o a Greensted,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cruzando los campos arados (del color al que yo le decía <i>marronáceo</i>,<o:p></o:p></div>
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un matíz entre marrón y malva que nos fascinaba<o:p></o:p></div>
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cuando yo era una nena y vos<o:p></o:p></div>
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no mucho más) encontrando nuevos atajos <o:p></o:p></div>
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cerca de White Roding o de Abbess Roding, o perdida<o:p></o:p></div>
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entre las calles de Romford, que en esa época eran senderos—<o:p></o:p></div>
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frunciendo el entrecejo para aplastar tus pensamientos, respirando
profundo<o:p></o:p></div>
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el aire húmedo y quieto, metiendo <o:p></o:p>la escarcha </div>
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en tu mente inquebrantable.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Qué frío para tu abrigo liviano y tus zapatos de mala muerte–<o:p></o:p></div>
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Níobe sin lágrimas. Tus hijos estaban perdidos <o:p></o:p></div>
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y las luces del escenario se habían apagado, hasta el teatro
vacío<o:p></o:p></div>
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estaba cerrado para vos, cueva de transformación donde todo <o:p></o:p></div>
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había sido casi posible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cuántos libros<o:p></o:p></div>
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leíste ese invierno en tus pensiones silenciosas<o:p></o:p></div>
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y cómo, desde afuera, los gritos extraños de los chorlitos
traspasaban tu soledad.<o:p></o:p></div>
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En mi añoranza, una vez les abrí los brazos, al lado tuyo,<br />
tropezando sobre los surcos–</div>
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Oh sin peinar y con las medias caídas<o:p></o:p></div>
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te arrastrabas detrás de tu angustia<o:p></o:p></div>
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sobre los campos yermos, solemne, solemnemente.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>vi<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Tus ojos eran del marrón-dorado del pedregullo bajo el agua.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nunca crucé el puente sobre el Roding, el que suspendido
sobre Wansted Park <o:p></o:p></div>
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separa el campo abierto del presente <o:p></o:p></div>
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de los misterios, fantasmas y desvíos del sentido del tiempo,
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sin recordar tus ojos. Aunque estuviéramos enemistadas<o:p></o:p></div>
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y mis propios ojos ardieran de dolor y de rabia al pensar en
vos.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Y en otras corrientes de otros países; en cualquier lugar
donde la luz<o:p></o:p></div>
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atravesara un charco hasta la grava dorada. Los ojos marrones<o:p></o:p></div>
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de Olga. Un verano lluvioso, en New Forest,<o:p></o:p></div>
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donde apenas se podía respirar de tedio y baja presión,<o:p></o:p></div>
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te lanzaste, salvaje, a improvisar en el piano<o:p></o:p></div>
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todas las sonatas de Beethoven, un día tras otro–<o:p></o:p></div>
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que se me hicieron semanas; a ratos daba vuelta las
hojas,<o:p></o:p></div>
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salía a andar en bicicleta, volvía y seguías ahí, <o:p></o:p></div>
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en las caídas y los rápidos de la música. Resonaban arpegios,
la rectoría<o:p></o:p></div>
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temblaba y nuestros padres parecían haberse desvanecido.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Pienso en tus ojos en esa foto, seis años antes de que
naciera yo,<o:p></o:p></div>
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y en el miedo que había en ellos. ¿Qué hiciste después<o:p></o:p></div>
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con tu miedo? ¿En los años de humillación,<o:p></o:p></div>
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de paranoia, de chantaje y casi de miseria, perdiendo, <o:p></o:p></div>
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uno por uno, el amor de los que amabas<o:p></o:p></div>
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padres, amantes, hijos, amigos idealizados?¿qué mantuvo<o:p></o:p></div>
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encendida en vos la llama de la compasión para iluminarte,<o:p></o:p></div>
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tan nítido, otro capítulo (pero del mismo libro) "un claro<o:p></o:p></div>
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en la selva oscura<o:p></o:p></div>
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una casa con la puerta abierta, una mano en un
gesto<o:p></o:p></div>
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de bienvenida"*?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cruzo<o:p></o:p></div>
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tantos arroyos en el mundo, hay tanta luz<o:p></o:p></div>
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bailando sobre tantas piedras, tantas preguntas que mis ojos<o:p></o:p></div>
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arden por formularle a los tuyos, ojos marrón-dorados<o:p></o:p></div>
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con las pestañas cortas pero los párpados<o:p></o:p></div>
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curvos como tallados en madera de olivo, ojos con una visión<o:p></o:p></div>
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noble y celebratoria en el reverso de la mirada dura, o velada, o
brillante,<o:p></o:p></div>
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pero siempre inescrutable...<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mayo-Agosto, 1964.<o:p></o:p><br />
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*NOTA DE LA AUTORA: Los versos citados —"un claro/ en la selva oscura..."— son una adaptación de unos versos de "Selva oscura", de Louise Mac Niece, un poema que mi hermana Olga adoraba.</div>
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<i><b>OLGA POEMS<o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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(Olga Levertoff, 1914 –
1964)<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>scorching
luxuriously, raking<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>her nails
over olive sides, the red<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>( And the
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>beady-eyed in
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>or drowsy,
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Sixteen. Her
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>who now
these two months long<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>is bones and
tatters of flesh in earth.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i> ii <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>The high
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insistence, lines<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>You wanted<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>to shout the
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>the poor
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>and human
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>when you
were nine and saw<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>grasping
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reaching that age,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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admiring<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>architectural
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and noted<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>pride in the
whitened doorsteps.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Black one,
black one,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>there was a
white<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>candle in
your heart.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>iii<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> i<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Everything
flows<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> she muttered into
my childhood,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>pacing the
trampled grass where human puppets<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>rehearsed
fates that summer,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>stung into
alien semblances by the lash of her will–<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>everything
flows –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I looked up
from my Littlest Bear’s cane armchair<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and knew the
words came from a book<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and felt
them alien to me<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>but linked
to words we loved<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> from the hymnbook– Time<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>like an ever
rolling stream/ bears all its sons away –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> ii<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Now as if
smoke or sweetness were blown my way<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I inhale a
sense of her livingness in that instant,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>feeling, dreaming,
hoping, knowing boredom and zest like anyone else<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>a young girl
in the garden, the same alchemical square<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I grew in,
we thought sometimes<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>too small
for our grand destinies –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>
But dread<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>was in her,
a bloodbeat, it was against the rolling dark<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>oncoming
river she raised bulkwarks, setting herself<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>to sift
cinders after early Mass all of one winter,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>labelling
her desk’s normal disorder, basing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>her verses
on Keble’s Christian Year, picking<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>those endless
arguments, pressing on<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>to
manipulate lives to disaster… To change,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>to change
the course of the river! What rage for order<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>disordered
her pilgrimage–so that for years at a time<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>she would
hide among strangers, waiting<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>to rearrange
all mysteries in a new light.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> iii <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Black one,
incubus –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> she appeared<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>riding
anguish as Tartars ride mares<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>over the
stubble of bad years.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>In one of
the years<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> When I didn’t know if she were dead or
alive<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I saw her in
dream<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>haggard and
rouged<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<i><span lang="EN-US"> </span>Lit by the flare<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>from an eel-
or cockle-stand on a slum street –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>was it a
dream? I had lost<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>all sense,
almost, of<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> who she was, what–inside of her skin,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>under her
black hair<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> dyed blonde –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>it might
feel like to be, in the wax and wane of the moon,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>in the life
I feel as unfolding, not flowing, the pilgrim years –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<i><span lang="EN-US"> </span>iv<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>On your
hospital bed you lay<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>in love, the
hatreds<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>that had
folowed you, a<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>comet’s
tail, burned out<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>as your disasters
bred of love<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>burned out,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>while pain
and drugs<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>quarreled
like sisters in you –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>lay afloat
on a sea<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>of love and
pain – how you always<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>loved that
cadence ‘Underneath<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>are the
everlasting arms’ –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>all history<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>burned out,
down<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>to the sick
bone, save for<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>that kind
candle.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>v<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>
i<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>In a garden
grene wheneas I lay –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>you set the
words to a tune so plaintive<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>it plucks
its way through my life as through a wood.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>As through a
wood, shadow and light between birches,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>gliding a
moment in open glades, hidden by thickets of holly<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>your life
winds in me.
In Valentines<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>a root
protrudes from the greensward several yards from its tree<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>we might
rise like a trapdoor’s handle, you said,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and descend
long steps to another country<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>where we
would live without father or mother<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and without
longing for the upper world. The birds<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>sang sweet,
O song, in the midst of the daye,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and we
entered silent mid-Essex churches on hot afternoons<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and communed
with the effigies of knights and their ladies<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and their
slender dogs asleep at their feet,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>the stone so
cold – In youth<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>is pleasure,
in youth is pleasure.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> ii<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Under autumn
clouds, under white<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Wideness of winter
skies you went away walking<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>The year you
were most alone<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Returning to
the old roads, seeing again<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>The
signposts pointing to Theydon Garnon<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Or
Stapleford Abbots or Greensted,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Crossing the
ploughlands (whose color I named murple,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>A shade
between brown and mauve that we loved<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>When I was a
child and you<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Not much
more than a child) finding new lanes<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Near White
Roding or Abbess Roding; or lost in Romford’s<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>New streets
where there were footpaths then –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Frowning as
you ground out your thoughts, breathing deep<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Of the damp
still air, taking<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>The frost
into your mind unflinching.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>How cold it
was your thin coat, your down-at-heel shoes –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>tearless
Niobe, your children were lost to you<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and the
stage lights had gone out, even the empty theater<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>was locked
to you, cavern of transformation where all<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>had almost
been possible.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> How
many books<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>You read in
your silent lodgings that winter,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>how the
plovers transpierced your solitude out of doors with the<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> strange
cries<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I had flung
open my arms to in longing, once, by your side<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>stumbling
over the furrows –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Oh, in your
torn stockings, with unwaved hair,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>you were
trudging after your anguish<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>over the bare
fields, soberly, soberly.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>vi<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>Your eyes
were the brown gold of pebbles under water.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I never
crossed the bridge over the Roding, dividing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>the open
field of the present from the mysteries,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>the wraiths
and shifts of time-sense Wanstead Park held suspended,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>without
remembering your eyes. Even when we were estranged<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>and my own
eyes smarted in pain and anger at the thought of you.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>And by other
streams in other countries; anywhere where the light<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>reaches down
through shallows to gold gravel. Olga’s<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>brown eyes.
One rainy summer, down in the New Forest,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>when we
could hardly breathe for ennui and the low sky,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>you turned
savagely to the piano sightread<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>straight
through all the Beethoven sonatas, day after day –<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>weeks, it
seemed to me. I would turn the pages some of the time,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>go out to
ride my bike, return – you were enduring in the<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>falls and
rapids of the music, the arpeggios rang out, the rectory<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>trembled,
our parents seemed effaced.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>I think of
your eyes in that photo, six years before I was born,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>the fear in
them. What did you do with your fear,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>later?
Through the years of humiliation,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>of paranoia
and blackmail and near-starvation, losing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>the love of
those you loved, one after another,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>parents,
lovers, children, idolized friends, what kept<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>compassion’s
candle alight in you, that lit you<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>clear into
another chapter (but the same book) a clearing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>in the selva
oscura,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>a house
whose door<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>swings open,
a hand beckons<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>in welcome’?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i> I cross<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>so many
brooks in the world, there is so much light<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>dancing on
so many stones, so many questions my eyes<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>smart to ask
of your eyes, gold brown eyes,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>the lashes
short but the lids<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>arched as if
carved out of olivewood, eyes with some vision<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span lang="EN-US"><i>of festive
goodness in back of their hard, or veiled, or shining,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<i>unknowable gaze…</i><o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<o:p><br /></o:p>
<o:p><br /></o:p></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<o:p>May - August, 1964.</o:p><br />
<o:p><br /></o:p>
<o:p><br /></o:p>
<o:p><br /></o:p>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">el olor negro de la tierra en primavera.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">generalizado de la muerte —¿como si hicieran<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">maneras nuevas de morir.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="es">La muerte</span> sigue </span><span style="font-size: large;">probando </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">en nosotros</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">el riesgo</span></div>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">porque </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Adán se </span><span style="font-size: large;">arriesgó.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Calavera* de la Primavera.</span></div>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">Hablo de vivir,<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">de pasar de un momento <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">al que sigue, y al que viene <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="es"><span style="font-size: large;">en el aire de la primavera, sabiendo <o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-size: large;">que</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(de <i>"Poems 1960-1967", </i>New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">más alto, y ahora, rápidamente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>continua,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">de escuchar...</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"> the hum slowly </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"> deep world, unshaken,
sounding </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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wide mouth </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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continuous, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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gong <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"> of the universe, neither
beginning nor ending, </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">but heard </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">only those times we take </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">the cup and stroke </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">to listen… <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">(de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>"Poems 1972-1982"</i>, New Directions Publishing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Corporation, 2001.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-20991228365582670462013-10-10T18:27:00.001-03:002013-10-10T18:30:17.642-03:00LA VIDA A NUESTRO ALREDEDOR<div class="Standard" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: right;">
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Para David Mitchell y David Hass</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">El álamo y el roble, toda la noche</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">despiertos. Y con <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">todos los climas
de todos los días del año.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hay una conciencia
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">indefinida.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">El crepúsculo de
ayer, casi finales<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">de agosto, duró,
variando lentamente,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hasta el
amanecer. Los sonidos del hombre<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">se silenciaron detrás
de las cortinas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ningún ser humano
vio </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">la noche </span><span style="line-height: 16.363636016845703px;">en este jardín</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">deslizando su azul en la mañana.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sólo los árboles
ciegos,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sin neuronas, la vivieron<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">y la conocieron
por completo.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Life Around Us</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">for David Mitchell and David Hass</span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Poplar and oak awake<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">all night. And through<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">all weathers of the days of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There is a consciousness<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">undefined.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yesterday's twilight, August<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">almost over, lasted, slowly changing,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">until daybreak. Human sounds<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">were shut behind curtains.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No human saw the night in this garden,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sliding blue into morning.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Only the sightless trees,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>without
braincells, lived it</i></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>and wholly knew it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(de <i>"Poems 1968-1972"</i>, New Directions Publishing
Corporation, 1987.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Versión en
castellano de Sandra Toro</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-47348006317955256962013-10-05T10:44:00.000-03:002019-11-03T10:44:56.285-03:00LA SALA<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Con un espejo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">pude ver el cielo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Con dos o tres, bien situados, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">podría ver el sol</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">inclinándose ante las chimeneas de la noche.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">La salida de la luna —la luna misma podría aparecer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">en un cuarto espejo, alto,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">cerca de la ventana abierta.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Con suficientes espejos adentro, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">0 incluso afuera de la sala, con una viga</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">para sostenerlos, las montañas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">y los mares podrían manifestarse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Entiendo perfectamente</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">que </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">podría toparme </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">demasiado seguido</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">con mis ojos —</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tengo en cuenta</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">el peligro—</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Si los espejos</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">son bastante grandes, y se disponen </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">con bravura, puedo mirar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">más allá de mi propia mirada.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Con un espejo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">¿cuántas estrellas podría ver?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">No quiero escaparme, solamente presenciar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">la celebración de los ritos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Room</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>With a mirror</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>I could see the sky.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>With two mirrors or three</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>justly placed, I could see</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the sun bowing to the evening chimneys.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Moonrise -the moon itself might appear</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>in a fourth mirror placed high</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and close to the open window.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i> With enough mirrors within</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and even without the room, a cantilever</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>supporting them, mountains</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and oceans might be manifest.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>I understand perfectly</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>that I could encounter my own eyes</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>too ofen -I take account</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>of the danger-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i> If the mirrors</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>are large enough, and arranged</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>with bravura, I can look</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>beyond my own glance.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>With one mirror</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>how many stars could I see?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>I don't want to escape, only to see</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the enactment of rites.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pandemonio de lechuzas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">que cruza, de Este a Oeste y de Oeste <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a Este, sobre el mar de pasto segado<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">de la luna llena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Las de voz grave<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">y las de gemidos agudos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ululando juntas, ni en diálogo <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ni al unísono,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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en superposición<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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como para<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sobresalir, les ladra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">un zorro, cuyo <i>obbligato</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">las lechuzas ignoran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ellas levantan <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">el techo de la oscuridad; feroz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> su alegría
en el plateado intenso<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> que dejó escapar la luna,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">aire luminoso en el que esos ojos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no hieren ni se cierran,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> la noche del año<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> erigida por sus
conjuros-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">y si<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">los zorros creen que es de ellos, terrícolas, hay suficiente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">fuego de lechuzas para rodearlos en vuelo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>N. de la T.:</b> En
música clásica la palabra Obbligato describe una línea músical que de alguna
manera es indispensable en la representación. Puede también ser utilizada para
indicar que un pasaje de música debe ser tocado de igual manera a como está
escrito, o sólo con un instrumento específico sin cambios u omisiones.<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">SECRET FESTIVAL;
SEPTEMBER MOON<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pandemonium of owls<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">plying from east to west and<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">west to east, over the full-moon sea of<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">mown grass.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> The low-voiced<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and the wailing high-voiced<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hooting together, neither in dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">as if to excel, whose obligato<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the owls ignore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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their joy in the extreme silver<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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the moon has floated out from itself,<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">luminous air in which their eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> the night of
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">foxes believe it’s theirs, there’s enough to
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">over and round them, earthlings, of owlish
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Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</div>
</span><o:p></o:p>SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-37259313025455190692013-09-23T18:15:00.000-03:002013-09-23T18:15:17.731-03:00MUERTE EN MÉXICO<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Dos semanas antes de su declive,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tres semanas antes de su muerte, el jardín<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ya empezó a desaparecer. La cerca desvencijada se rindió<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a las amenazas y los chicos arrojaban <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">juguetes de plástico rotos -amarillos feroces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">rojos sin resonancia, en el camino y en el limonero;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">o se metían corriendo por los huecos, pisoteando las
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Durante dos semanas nadie las regó, excepto yo, dos veces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pero empezaron las lluvias; cuando volví eran aguaceros<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">violentos, repentinos que azotaban todas las tardes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brotó la maleza,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">el manto seco fue barrido <o:p></o:p>pronto</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">por los desagües. Oh, todavía quedaba verde<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">pero el jardín se esfumaba- cada día<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">menos señales del oasis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">planeado con esmero, un cantero circular que su mente<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">concibió para las begonias, las rosas y los lirios, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">y el romero-para-la-memoria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Veinte años para construirlo-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">menos de un mes para deshacerse,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">los que vivieron esas décadas a su vera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no hicieron nada por conservarlo. Oh, Alberto sí,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">un día arregló un poquito la cerca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cuando le dije que un jardín sería valioso<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">para un futuro inquilino. Pero nadie creyó<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">que la jardinera iba a vivir (yo menos que nadie),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">así que su dolor ante la ruina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">permanecía abstracto, un concepto incomprensible<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">que no movía a ningún acto. Cuando se la llevaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
en una
camilla<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">camino del sanatorio*, el deterioro visual<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">se volvió una bendición, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no pudo haber visto más que un manchón verdoso.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pero a mí la maleza, los rosales sin rosas, los <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tallos rotos de la caña india y de los amarilis, toda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">esa jungla verde y opaca, me mostraban<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">-antes de que terminara su agonía-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">una mirada obstinada, ciega, que lo veía todo:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">la había visto </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">ya</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">en los museos,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en las máscaras de piedra de dioses y de víctimas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Una mirada que no admite ternura alguna, si sonríe, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">lo hace con amargura sublime -no, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ni siquiera es amarga: no admite<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">arrepentimiento, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">en su cosmos </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">no hay lugar para la nostalgia,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">la amargura es irrelevante.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Si sostiene una flor, y lo hace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">una flor sedosa, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">brillante </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">y</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">delicada que florece</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">un solo día, la sostiene <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">apretada entre los dientes filosos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sobre su rostro pueden arrastrarse enredaderas y escorpiones </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">pero aunque los siglos limen</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">los párpados y las anchas fosas nasales, la mirada de piedra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sigue inmóvil, fija, absoluta,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">una sonrisa negadora frente a la eternidad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Los jardines desaparecen. Ella, aquí, era extranjera,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">igual que yo. Su muerte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no era asunto de México. El jardín <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">era un rehén. Los viejos dioses<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">tomaron lo que era de ellos.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">*N de la T: en español en el original.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">DEATH IN
MEXICO<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Even two
weeks after her fall,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">three weeks
before she died, the garden<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">began to
vanish. The rickety fence gave way<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">as it had
threatened, and the children threw<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">broken
plastic toys –vicious yellow,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">unresonant
red, onto the path, into the lemontree;<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">or trotted
in through the gap, trampling small plants.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For two
weeks no one watered it, except<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I did,
twice, but then I left. She was still conscious then<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and thanked
me. I begged the others to water it-<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but the
rains began; when I got back there were violent,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sudden,
battering downpours each afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
Weeds flourished,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">dry topsoil
was washed away swiftly<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">into the
drains. Oh, there was green, still,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but the
garden was disappearing-each day<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">less sign
of the ordered,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">thought-out
oasis, a squared circle her mind<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">constructed
for rose and lily, begonia<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and
rosemary-for-remembrance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Twenty
years in the making-<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">less than a
month to undo itself;<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and those
who had seen it grow,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">living
around it those decades,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">did nothing
to hold it. Oh, Alberto did,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">one day,
patch up the fence a bit,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">when I told
him a future tenant would value<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">having a
garden. But no one believed<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the garden-maker
would live (I least of all),<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">so her pain
if she were to see the ruin<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">remained
abstract, an incomprehensible concept,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">impelling
no action. When they carried her past<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">
on
a stretcher,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">on her way
to the sanatorio, failing sight<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">transformed
itself into a mercy, certainly<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">she could
have seen no more than a greenish blur.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But to me
the weeds, the flowerless rosebushes, broken <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">stems of
the canna lilies and amaryllis, all<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a
lusterless jungle green, presented-<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">even before
her dying was over-<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">an
obdurate, blind, all-seeing gaze:<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I had seen
it before, in the museums,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">in stone
masks of the gods and victims.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A gaze that
admit no tenderness, if it smiles, it<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">only smiles
with sublime bitterness-no, <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not even
bitter: it admits<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no regret,
nostalgia has no part in its cosmos,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">bitterness
is irrelevant.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If it holds
a flower-and it does,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a delicate
brilliant silky flower that blooms only<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">a single
day-it holds it clenched<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">between
sharp teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Vines may
crawl, and scorpions, over its face,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">but though
the centuries blunt<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">eyelid and
flared nostril, the stone gaze<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">is utterly
still, fixed, absolute,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">smirk of
denial facing eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gardens
vanish. She was an alien here,<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">as I am.
Her death<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">was not
México’s business. The garden though<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">was a
hostage. Old gods<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>took back
their own.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #171717; line-height: 107%;">(de<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>"Poems 1972-1982"</i>, New Directions Publishing<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Corporation, 2001.)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-14416025874313318162013-04-16T13:21:00.000-03:002019-11-04T10:36:01.117-03:00SALMO ACERCA DEL CASTILLO<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que yo esté en el lugar del castillo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Y que el castillo esté en mí.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que se alce sólido desde el círculo del foso.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que las aguas del foso reflejen el plumaje verde de los patos, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">que las caparazones de las tortugas acuáticas rompan la superficie </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">o se vean a través de las profundidades ondulantes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que a su vera se detengan los jinetes y un perro </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">siempre alerta al borde del sueño.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que esté oscuro el espacio debajo del primer piso, que el agua </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">lama los pilares de piedra y el limo verde vivo relumbre </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">sobre ellos. Que allí se guarde un bote.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que las cariátides del segundo piso sean osos </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">sostenidos por rayos que son dragones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que seamos cuatro los arqueros sobre el parapeto del salón central</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">oteando los cuatro horizontes. Y que, adentro, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">el príncipe esté en su hogar. Que se siente pensativo, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">en paz, con todas las ventanas abiertas a las logias.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Que arriba se siente la joven reina, al fresco, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">con su hijo en brazos y que mire con gozo el gran círculo, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">las sombras de los peregrinos, el trabajo del sol </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">y el juego del viento. Que vaya y venga. Que las columnas sostengan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">el techo y que los pisos sostengan las columnas, que haya </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">un espacio oscuro debajo del piso más bajo, que el castillo se alce </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">sólido desde el foso, que el foso sea un círculo y el agua </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">un piélago, que los guardias lo guarden, que haya </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">tierra vasta a su alrededor, que el país donde se emplace esté </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">dentro de mí, que yo esté donde él esté.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>PSALM CONCERNING THE CASTLE</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let me be at the place of the castle.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let the castle be within me.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let it rise foursquare from the moat's ring.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let the moat's waters reflect green plumage of ducks, let</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the shells of swimming turtles break the surface or be</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>seen through the rippling depths.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let horsemen be stationed at the rim of it, and a dog,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>always alert on the brink of sleep.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>them; let a boat be kept there.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let the caryatids of the second storey be bears upheld on</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>beams that are dragons.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>On the parapet of the central room, let there be four</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>archers, looking off to the four horizons. Within, let</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the prince be at home, let him sit in deep thought, at</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>peace, all the windows open to the loggias.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Let the young queen sit above, in the cool air, her child in</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>her arms; let her look with joy at the great circle, the</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>pilgrim shadows, the work of the sun and the play of</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the wind. Let her walk to and fro. Let the columns uphold</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the roof, let the storeys uphold the columns, let there</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>be dark space below the lowest floor, let the castle rise</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>foursquare out of the moat, let the moat be a ring and</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the water deep, let the guardians guard it, let there be</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>wide lands around it, let that country where it stands be</i></span><br />
<i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">within me, let me be where it is.</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Alguien atravesó este campo anoche:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">el día revela</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">una perspectiva de cuevas color
lavanda<br />cruzando la nieve. Alguien</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">se internó en el bosque negro.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>THE FOOTPRINTS</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Someone crossed this field last
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>day reveals</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>a perspective of lavender caves</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>across the snow. Someone</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>entered the dark woods.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(de
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New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987.)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">de la luna llena transforma</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">absoluta, incontables cimitarras</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">saludan a la hora sin testigos. Los
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">se retiraron</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">y persianas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Las estrellas caen, kamikazes</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">de éxtasis. La marea</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">se somete y se somete.<br />La luna
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">alegría penitente a los lagartos,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sangre a las mujeres que sueñan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Los perros se ovillan</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">asustados bajo el frangipani*</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">que silenciosamente</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sobre la arena.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Full moon's sharp</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>palmfrond to curved</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>steel: in absolute</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>allegiance, uncountable scimitars</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>hail the unwitnessed hour. The humans</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>have withdrawn,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>curtained,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>shuttered.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Stars fall, kamikaze</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>of ectasy. The tide</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>submits and submits.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The moon exacts</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>penitent joy from lizards,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>blood from dreaming women.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Dogs huddle</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>scared under the frangipani</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>which lets fall</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>silently one flower</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>into the sand.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> Tonga, 1979. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> (de <i>"Poems 1972-1982"</i>, New
Directions Publishing<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Corporation, 2001.)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<div style="text-align: right;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro.
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</span></span>SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-41136859447278200892013-01-22T13:03:00.004-03:002013-01-22T13:03:31.938-03:00LIBACIÓN
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Levantando los vasos, con una sonrisa</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">nos deseamos no suerte</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sino felicidad. Después de media vida
con
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">y sin suerte
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">sabemos que es necesario más que eso.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">No importa si tomamos</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">jugo de tomate en vez de vino o
whisky--<br />Sabemos lo que queremos decir,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">y el jugo rojo de esos frutos virtuosos</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">es algo que apreciamos los dos.<br />Te
recuerdo maravillado, como ante un milagro,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">al verlos en las enredaderas robustas</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">del invernadero de mis tíos</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">¡listos para arrancar y comer con el
desayuno!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Teníamos veintitrés años y un hambre
insaciable...</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Entonces coincidimos en los tomates- ¿y
en la felicidad?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sí, en eso también: queremos decir, crecer, ramificarse;
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">dar hojas, capullos, frutos; y el olor
punzante</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
de los sueños.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Queremos decir, conocer a alguien tanto</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">no, más, de lo que nos conocimos
nosotros.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Y que nos conozcan. Nos deseamos</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">la suerte de no necesitar suerte. Echo</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">entonces, un poco de sal y de
pimienta<br />en mi jugo, con el gesto antiguo;<br />¿Y qué habría de
malo
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">en derramar medio vaso</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">para los dioses?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
Sonreímos.
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Después de estos meses de dolor
empezamos</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">a admitir que nuestras vidas nuevas
comenzaron.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>LIBATION</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Raising our glasses, smilingly</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>we wish one another not luck</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>but happiness. After half a lifetime</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>with and without luck,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>we know we need more than luck.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>It makes no difference that we're
drinking</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>tomato juice, not wine or whiskey -</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>we know what we mean,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>and the red juice of those virtuous</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>vegetable-fruits is something we
both enjoy.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>I remember your wonder, as at a
miracle,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>finding them growing on sturdy vines</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>in my old aunt and uncle's sun-room</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>ripe to pluck at the
breakfast-table!</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We were twenty-three, and
unappeasably hungry...</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We agree on tomatoes, then-and
happiness?</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>yes, that too: we mean growth,
branching,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>leafing, yielding blossoms and fruit
and the sharp odor </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>of dreams.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We mean knowing someone as deeply,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>no, deeper, than we’ve known each
other,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>we mean being known. We are wishing
each other</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>the luck not to need luck. I mill</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>some pepper into my juice, though,</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>and salt in the ancient gesture; and
what would be wrong</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>with tipping out half a glass</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>for the gods? </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We smile.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>After these months of pain we begin</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>to admit our new lives have begun.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">(de
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro.</span></span></div>
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</span></span>SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-20059449045262737112013-01-06T17:08:00.001-03:002013-01-22T13:42:49.304-03:00LA LIBERACIÓN DEL POLVO<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Despoja al polvo de sus vendas de momia.<br />Deja que Ariel aprenda<br />una bendición para Calibán<br />y que Calibán beba rocío del loto<br />abierto sobre el agua.<br />Haz amarga la corriente<br />del río lento: el rocío<br />mojará sus labios con luz.<br />Deja que el polvo <br />flote, las vendas son <br />polvo también.<br /> Déjate llevar <br />por la turbulencia del aire, del río <br />oscuro: cenizas de lo que vivió,<br /> o semillas<br /> de sésamo antiguo,<br /> o polvo puro <br />sin nombre, que es todo. Bendice,<br />Espíritu ingrávido. Bebe, <br />Calibán, hunde tu lengua<br />en el cáliz.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>The Freeing of the Dust</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Unwrap the dust from its mummycloths.<br />Let Ariel learn</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>a blessing for Caliban</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>and Caliban drink dew freom the lotus</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>open upon the waters.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Bitter the slow</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>river water: dew</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>shall wet his lips with light.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Let the dust</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>float, the wrappings too</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>are dust.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> Drift upon the stir</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>of air, of dark</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>river: ashes of wat had lived,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> or seeds</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> of ancient sesame,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> or namelessly</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>pure dust that is all</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>in all. Bless,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>weightless Spirit. Drink,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Caliban, push your tongue</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>heavy into the calyx.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">(de "Poems 1972-1982", New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001.)</span></span></span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-13264497685453951172013-01-04T12:40:00.000-03:002013-01-22T13:44:38.114-03:00"EL POEMA ELEVÁNDOSE POR SU PROPIO PESO"<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">El poeta está a disposición de su propia noche</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> Jean Cocteau</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">La túnica susurrante ondula sobre tu cuerpo y sedosamente se adhiere,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">das un paso en la cuerda y avanzás sin dudar,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">ileso, atrapás los cuchillos feroces y</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">los hacés girar encima tuyo, fuente de llamas </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">que suben y bajan, suben y bajan</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">rítmicamente,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">dejás que las cadenas se enrosquen,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">con arrogancia, listo</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">para cortarlas, eslabón por eslabón de acero,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cerrojo por cerrojo --</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> pero cuando tus contorsiones</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">graciosas y confiadas hunden el metal</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">en tu carne y se estrecha su abrazo de pitón</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y ves óxido en las cadenas y sangre en tus poros</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y rodás por una pendiente hasta un agujero negro</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y no se escucha ni el sonido de la burla en el aire lejano,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">arriba, en algún lugar donde antes estuvo el cielo,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">ningún sonido más que el de tu propia respiración jadeante:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">entonces es cuando entra</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">el milagro, sobre sus pies veloces,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">por el precipicio, directo a la cueva,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">abre los cerrojos,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">los nudos de las cadenas caen abiertos,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">los lazos se desatan,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">los eslabones se hacen trizas,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y en segundos hay un montón de chatarra</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a tus pies, pisás en libertad al mismo tiempo</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">que él se da vuelta para irse-</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">pero cuando cuando lo detenés con un grito,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">agarrándote de sus rodillas, gimiendo tu gratitud,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">con qué expresión radiante te mira,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y te pone de pie,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y te acaricia el pelo en desorden,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">y te abraza</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> te abraza</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> te abraza</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">estrecha y tiernamente antes de desaparecer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>"The Poem Rising By Its Own Weight"</b></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The poet is at the disposal of his own
night.</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
Jean Cocteau</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>The singing robes fly onto your body
and cling there silkily,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>you step out on the rope and move
unfalteringly across it,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
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</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and seize the fiery knives unscathed
and</i></span></div>
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</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>keep them spinning above you, a
fountain</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>of rhythmic rising, falling, rising</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>flames,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and proudly let the chains</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>be wound about you, ready</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>to shed them, link by steel link, </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>padlock by padlock —</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> but when
your graceful</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>confident shrug and twist drives the
metal</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>into your flesh and the python grip of
it tightens</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and you see rust on the chains and
blood in your pores</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and you roll</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>over and down a steepness into a dark
hole</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and there is not even the sound of
mockery in the distant air</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>somewhere above you where the sky was,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>no sound but your own breath panting:</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>then it is that the miracle</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>walks in, on his swift feet,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>down the precipice straight into the
cave,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>opens the locks,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>knots of chain fall open,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>twists of chain unwind themselves,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>links fall asunder, in seconds there is
a heap of scrap-</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>metal at your ankles, you step free and
at once</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>he turns to go — </i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>but as you catch at him with a cry,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>clasping his knees, sobbing your
gratitude,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>with what radiant joy he turns to you,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and raises you to your feet,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and strokes your disheveled hair,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>and holds you,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> holds you,</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
holds you</i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>
</i></span>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i>close and tenderly before he vanishes.</i></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">(de "Poems 1972-1982", New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />
</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro. </span></span></span></div>
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SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-45248414442409599502012-12-01T14:18:00.005-03:002019-11-07T17:19:16.149-03:00TODAVÍA NO<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Un sigilo en el aire que quiere decir:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">las golondrinas volaron</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">hacia el sur mientras yo </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">volaba hacia el norte otra vez.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pero en el silencio </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">hay pichones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">que me hacen reír de mala gana</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">y grillos curiosos de mi ropa </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">puesta a blanquear</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">sobre el pasto marrón.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Entonces sonrío.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">¿Qué más se puede hacer?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">La melancolía aburre.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">¿Y si el pozo se seca</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">—y se secó—,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">y si el número de bajas aumenta</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">—y lo hace—,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">y si el verano se agota</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">antes de que lo haga </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">entrar en mi vida?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">No hay nada que hacer más que tomar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">las migas que caen de la mesa de los pichones</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">—o morirse de hambre.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Y el momento de morirse de hambre todavía no llegó.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br /><i>NOT YET</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>A stealth in air that means:</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the swallows hace flown</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>south while I flew</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>north again.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Still, in the quiet there are</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>chickadees,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>to make me grudgingly smile,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and crickets curious abouti</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>my laundry put out to bleach</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>on brown grass.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>So I do smile.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>What else to do?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Melancholy is boring.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>And if the well goes dry-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and it has;</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and if the body-count goes up-</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and it does;</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>and if the summer spent</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>itself before I took it</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>into my life-?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Nothing to do but take</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>crumbs that fall from the chickadee's table</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>-or starve.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>But the time for starving is not yet.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">(de <i>"Poems 1968-1972"</i>, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1987.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</span></div>
SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-58559564331450345732012-11-25T17:38:00.000-03:002012-11-25T17:50:45.964-03:00CANCIÓN EXTRAÑA<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">El aullido vacilante de un perro
virtuoso entrada la medianoche</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">resuelto en tres ladridos bajos en
staccato.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tres veces la misma alocución</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">repetida, insistente.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Se asegura, como un pájaro que
practica</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> todo el día,
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> su fraseo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lo escucho entredormida, consciente</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">del placer de escuchar,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">sin asustarme de estar sola.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pero el miedo me fastidia: ¿la herida</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">que sufrió mi vida</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">se está curando demasiado rápido,</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">cerrándose con rencor?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">¿La cicatriz
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">va a arrugar la piel de mi alma?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">“Silencio”, le grita alguien al
perro</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">que una vez más eleva su queja</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">en la noche otoñal como una canción
extraña.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">STRANGE SONG</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">A virtuoso dog at midnight-high wavering howl </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">resolved in three staccato low barks.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Three times the same utterance</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">repeated, insisted on.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">It makes sure, like a bird practicing</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> through the day,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> its phrase.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I listen half asleep, aware</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">of pleasure in listening, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">not afraid of my solitude.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet the fear nags me: is the wound</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">my life has suffered</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"> healing too fast,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">shutting in bad blood?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Will the scar</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">pucker the skin of my soul?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Shut up", someone shouts at the dog</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">who again lifts his complaint</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">into the fall night in strange song. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">(de <i>"Poems 1972-1982"</i>, New Directions Publishing Corpor<span style="font-size: large;">ation, 2001.)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<br />SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-13534541433488639392012-11-17T03:46:00.000-03:002012-11-17T03:49:03.642-03:00ORACIÓN POR EL AMOR REVOLUCIONARIO<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que una mujer no le pida a un hombre
que deje un trabajo valioso para seguirla.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que un hombre no le pida a una mujer
que deje un trabajo valioso para seguirlo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que nadie intente encadenar a
Eros.<br />Pero que nadie ponga una cachiporra en manos de Eros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que nuestra lealtad mutua y nuestra lealtad al trabajo </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">no sean puestas en falso conflicto.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que el amor nos proporcione amor por el
trabajo del otro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que el amor por el trabajo del otro nos
proporcione amor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que el amor por el trabajo del otro
nos proporcione amor.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que el amor nos proporcione amor por
el trabajo del otro.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que nuestro amor, si hace falta,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">ceda el paso a la ausencia. Y a lo
desconocido.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Que soportemos la ausencia, si hace
falta,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">sin perder nuestro amor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sin cerrar nuestras puertas a lo
desconocido.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">PRAYER FOR REVOLUTIONARY LOVE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That a woman not ask a man to leave
meaningful work to follow her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That a man not ask a woman to leave
meaningful work to follow him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That no one try to put Eros in bondage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But that no one put a cudgel in the
hands of Eros.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That our loyalty to one another and our
loyalty to our work </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">not be set in false conflict.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That our love for each other give us
love for each other’s work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That our love for each other’s work
give us love for one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That our love for each other’s work give us love for one another.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That our love for each other give us love for each other’s work.</span></i></div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That our love for each other, if need
be, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">give way to absence. And the unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That we endure absence, if need be, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">without losing our love for each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Without closing our doors to
the unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(De <i>"Poems 1972-1982"</i>, New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2001)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Versión en castellano de Sandra Toro</span></div>
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<br />SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-80107036404300654332012-11-13T20:08:00.002-03:002012-11-13T20:08:36.522-03:001° DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1969, 3 A.M.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Viento tibio, las hojas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">crujiendo sin sequedad,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">colinas disueltas en plata.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Podría ser cualquier época,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">cuatrocientos años atrás o un momento</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">de paz post-revolucionaria,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">los ríos</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">limpios</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> otra vez, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">la tasa de natalidad y las cosechas</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en equilibrio, de algún modo...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">En el rocío denso</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">bajo la luna el pasto rubio </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">se tuerce </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">en bandas sobre la ladera. Con fervor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">los grillos practican su religión de éxtasis.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3 a.m., September 1, 1969</span></b></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> for Kenneth Rexroth</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Warm wind, the leaves</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">rustling without dryness,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">hills dissolved into silver.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It could be any age,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">four hundred years ago or a time</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">of post- revolutionary peace,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the rivers clean again, birth rate and crops</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">somehow in balance...</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In heavy dew</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">under the moon the blond grasses</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">lean in swathes on the field slope. Fervently</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">the crickets practice their religion of ectasy.</span></i><br />
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<br />SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-2765802169547778572012-11-09T17:33:00.000-03:002019-11-04T16:48:51.696-03:00NO TENER...<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">No tener, sino ser.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">El corazón negro de la amapola.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Oh, estar ahí como una semilla.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Convertirme en la bienamada.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Mientras el mundo se acaba, ingresar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">en la última nota de su música.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>NOT TO HAVE...</i></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Not to have but to be.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>The black heart of the poppy,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>O to lie there as a seed.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>To become the beloved.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>As the world ends, to enter</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the last note of its music.</i></span><br />
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<br />SThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09626963062761157433noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391459345630022076.post-32246002037297457952012-11-08T14:24:00.001-03:002019-11-07T17:51:52.685-03:00DESEANDO LA LUNA (II)<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">La luna no. Ser una cabeza de bronce</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">habitada por un dios.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Un torso de granito</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">que dejaron diez años a la intemperie,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">adorado por las nubes que pasan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">pintándolo con sus sombras, pinceladas de un azul polvoriento.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">Entregándoseles en lluvia infinita.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Ser una nube. Satisfecha con vagabundear, disfrutar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">el regocijo del cambio desde adentro, de la disolución,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">de llover.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"> Acostarse en los sueños</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">de un chico que tiene el pelo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;">del color de la caoba. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Not the moon. To be a bronze head</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">inhabited by a god.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> A torso of granite</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">left out in the weather ten thousand years,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">adored by passing clouds.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Their shadows painting it, brushstrokes of dust blue.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Giving themselves to it in infinite rain.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> To be a cloud. Sated with wandering, seize</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">the gaiety of change from within, of dissolution,</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of raining.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> To lie down in the dreams</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">of a young man whose hair</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">is the color of mahogany.</span></i><br />
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