el gato::cat
El gato
Él es totalmente negro, pero tiene una cola eléctrica. Cuando duerme bajo el sol es la cosa más negra que se pueda imaginar. Hasta cuando duerme caza ratones asustados. Se puede ver esto en las pequeñas garras que crecen de sus patas. Es terriblemente simpático y travieso. Atrapa pájeros del árbol antes de que se maduren.
Zbigniew Herbert
Elegy for the Departure
Ecco Press, USA (1999)
Elegy for the Departure
Ecco Press, USA (1999)
Cat
He is all black, but has an electric tail. When he sleeps in the
He is all black, but has an electric tail. When he sleeps in the
sun he is the blackest thing one can imagine. Even in his sleep
he catches frightened mice. One can see this in the little claws
that are growing from his paws. He is terribly nice and naughty
He picks birds off the trees before they are ripe.
Zbigniew Herbert
Elegy for the Departure
translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
Ecco Press, USA (1999)
Elegy for the Departure
translated from the Polish by John and Bogdana Carpenter
Ecco Press, USA (1999)
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