Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Gabriela Mistral


Seeing Him Again
Gabriela Mistral





¿And never, never, not even in nights filled

with tremor of stars, nor in the dawns

virgins, not even in the sacrificed afternoons?

 

¿At the edge of none existent pale path,

that encircles the field, at the edge of nothing

tremulous fountain, white moon?

 

¿Under the braids of the jungle,          

while calling him it’s become dark,

nor in the cave where my scream comes back?

 

¡Oh, no! To see him again, no matter where,

in the backwaters of heaven or in a boiling vortex,

under placid moons or in lurid horror!

 

¡And be with him every spring

and every winter, in an angsty

knot,  around his bloody neck!

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