The sea like a coarse mirror of silver reflects a metallic sky of zinc; distant flocks of cormorants tarnish its polished bottom of pallid gray. The sun like a glass, round and opaque, paces to its zenith with a halting gait; the ocean breezes settle in the shadow making a pillow of a black clarinet. […]
The Horseshoe Finder (A Pindaric fragment) We look at a forest and say: +++— Here is timber for ships and masts, Rosy pines, Free of hairy burden to their very tops, They should screech in the storm As lonely pines In a raging forestless air; The plumb-line fastened firmly to the dancing deck will […]
The Jaguar I am leaving the earth with a jaguar in my hand a jaguar that carries a heart in its hand in the silent looms of Mitla the Mexican night grows like sharing bread with a brother I let the jaguar eat my heart jaguar with heart in its hand About Writing this […]
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