se alaba esta casa
Se alaba esta casa
Se alaba esta casa plena de recursos seculares: se hace el pan.
Se hacen manteles, sábanas. La mesa servida. Se ocultan fechas,
malas horas, ciertas plantas, ciertas plantas. Pesadumbre:
fogón con rescoldos de días anteriores: banderas, banderas.
Se ausculta el cielo: hombres que conversan debajo de los árboles;
se tiñen las botas del primogénito con jugos de acanto.
Se alaba esta casa visitada por la humildad
Y CORONADA DE BUENOS DESEOS.
Ana Enriqueta Terán
Libro de los oficios (1997)
Antología Poética
Monte Ávila Editores, Caracas (2004)
This house is praised
This house, full of secular resources, is praised: the bread is made.
Tablecloths, sheets are made. The table served. Dates are hidden,
bad hours, certain plants, certain plants. Grief:
the stove with embers from previous days: flags, banners.
The sky is listened to: men who talk under the trees;
the firstborn's boots are stained with acanthus juice.
This house, visited by humility, is praised
AND CROWNED WITH GOOD WISHES.
This house, full of secular resources, is praised: the bread is made.
Tablecloths, sheets are made. The table served. Dates are hidden,
bad hours, certain plants, certain plants. Grief:
the stove with embers from previous days: flags, banners.
The sky is listened to: men who talk under the trees;
the firstborn's boots are stained with acanthus juice.
This house, visited by humility, is praised
AND CROWNED WITH GOOD WISHES.
Ana Enriqueta Terán
Book of trades (1997)
Anthology of poems
Monte Avila Editors, Caracas (2004)
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