flores al oscurecer::in summer
Flores al oscurecer
Quietud de las flores. Color
de intensidad fuego lento, caras
ardientes, frescas al tacto.
Mazo de flores al atardecer: Carmesíes,
magentas, naranjas,
hornos sin parpadeos, miradas
que se fijan, escarlatas inocentes,
blancos ardientes, flotando
en luz tardía, pasión serena
más calmas que el silencio.
Traducción Juan Carlos Galeano
Sands of the well
New Directions Books, USA (1996)
In summer
When the light, late in the afternoon, pauses among
the highest branches of the highest trees,
they stir a little, as if in pleasure. Light and a passing breeze
become one and the same, a caress. Then, the lower branches
leaves or needles in shadow, take up the lilt
of that response, their green with its hint of blue forming
that, if it were sound, could be called
a chord with the almost yellow of those
the sunlight tarries with.
New Directions Books, USA (1996)
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