Monday, April 13, 2020

Lines for a Lockdown: 'the life that is born every day/the death that is born every life'





Madrugada al raso

Los labios y las manos del viento
el corazón del agua
                                      un eucalipto
el campamento de las nubes
la vida que nace cada día
la muerte que nace cada vida

Froto mis párpados:
el cielo anda en la tierra

Daybreak

Hands and lips of wind
heart of water
                         eucalyptus
campground of the clouds
the life that is born every day
the death that is born every life

I rub my eyes:
the sky walks the land

                                      by Octavio Paz

translated by Eliot Weinberger

from The Collected Poems 1957-1987, New Directions, 1991.



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