Out of lemon flowers
loosed
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Day-colored wine,
night-colored wine,
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It was passed from one bird to another,
the whole gift of the day.
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Neither the heart cut by a piece of glass
in a wasteland of thorns
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It was the twilight of the iguana:
From a rainbowing battlement,
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You swallowed everything, like distance. Like the sea, like time.
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I want you to know
one thing.
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The weary one, orphan
of the masses, the self,
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America, from a grain of maize you grew
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Sadness, scarab with seven crippled feet,
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I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
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Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,
I cannot settle on a single one.
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Brown and agile child, the sun which forms the fruit And ripens the grain and twists the seaweed
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The memory of you emerges from the night around me.
The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.
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In my sky at twilight you are like a cloud
and your form and colour are the way I love them.
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Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes.
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Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:
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When I close a book I open life.
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Ancient night and the unruly salt beat at the walls of my house.
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Love, a question
has destroyed you.
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Take bread away from me, if you wish,
take air away, but
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Everything on the earth bristled, the bramble
pricked and the green thread
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I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars,
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The light wraps you in its mortal flame.
Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way
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Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig
and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips:
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We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
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The young maricones and the horny muchachas,
The big fat widows delirious from insomnia,
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There are cemeteries that are lonely,
graves full of bones that do not make a sound,
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My dog has died.
I buried him in the garden
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Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo: 'La noche está estrellada,
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