Happiness in Herat
Happiness in Herat I came here, just as I write these lines, with no fixed idea: a blue-green mosque, six shortened minarets, two or three tombs, memoirs of a poet-saint, the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Pablo Neruda: “Sonnet 45” (from Cien Sonetos de Amor)
Sonnet 45 (from Cien Sonetos de Amor) Who ever loved as we love? Let us seek the ancient ashes of every burned-up heart, and let our kisses fall there, one […]
Octavio Paz: “Axis”
Axis Through aqueducts of blood my body in your body fountain of night my solar tongue inside your forest your body a bowl for making bread I red wheat Through […]
Octavio Paz: “Last Dawn”
Last Dawn Stretched to its limit, your hair is lost in the forest, your feet are touching mine. Asleep you are greater than all of the night, but your dream […]
Federico García Lorca: “Ode to Walt Whitman”
Ode to Walt Whitman By the East River and the Bronx, the boys were singing, showing their midriffs, with wheel and oil, leather and hammer. Ninety thousand miners pulled silver […]
Juan Ramón Jiménez: “Big Moon”
Big Moon The door is open, the cricket is singing. Are you going around naked in the countryside? Like ceaseless water, flowing in and out of everything. Are you going […]
Antonio Machado: from Proverbs and Songs
from Proverbs and Songs I. The eye you see is not an eye because you see it; It is an eye because it sees you. II. To have a conversation, […]
