"Puras eran y blancas las nubes, como ovejas trasquiladas, saliendo del arroyo. Dormían, dulces, en los bancales del azul; deslizábase un estremecimiento silencioso en las hojas, nacido del suspiro que exhalaba el silencio, pues no se hubiera visto ni un moverse menudo entre todas las sombras de la hierba, inclinadas."
THERE is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
Emily Dickinson
If I dare
look up and speak
it is because of the shadow
so gently bound
to my name
far away
in the rain
in my memory
by a face
that burning in my poem
beautifully disperses
the scent
of the dear face gone
A. Pizarnik
To make of thirst my emblem
to mean the only dream
not to nourish on love ever again
I have been pure offering
pure roaming
of wolf in woods
in the night of bodies
to speak the innocent word
A. Pizarnik
I am truly madly deeply in love with Alejandra Pizarnik.
What does it mean to translate oneself into words?
When it does come my eyes will shine
with the light of whom I weep
but now it kindles a rumour of flight
in the heart of every thing.
A. Pizarnik
OPE Was but a timid friend;
This is winter, this is night, small love
A sort of black horsehair,
A rough, dumb country stuff
Steeled with the sheen
Of what green stars can make it to our gate.
I hold you in my arm.
It is very late.
The dull bells tongue the hour.
The mirror floats us at one candle power.
This is the fluid in which we meet each other,
This haloey radiance that seems to breathe
And lets our shadows wither
Only to blow
Them huge again, violent giants on the wall.
One match scratch makes you real.
At first the candle will not bloom at all ---
It snuffs its bud to almost nothing, to a dull blue dud.
I hold my breath until you creak to life,
Balled hedgehog,
Small and cross. The yellow knife
Grows tall. You clutch your bars.
My singing makes you roar.
I rock you like a boat
Across the Indian carpet, the cold floor,
While the brass man
Kneels, back bent as best he can
Hefting his white pillar with the light
That keeps the sky at bay,
The sack of black! It is everywhere, tight, tight!
He is all yours, the little brassy Atlas
Poor heirloom, all you have
At his heels a pile of five brass cannonballs,
No child, no wife.
Five balls! Five bright brass balls!
To juggle with, my love when the sky falls.
By Candlelight-Sylvia Plath
Si el sueño fuera (como dicen) una
tregua, un puro reposo de la mente,
¿por qué, si te despiertan bruscamente,
sientes que te han robado una fortuna?
¿Por qué es tan triste madrugar? La hora
nos despoja de un don inconcebible,
tan íntimo que sólo es traducible
en un sopor que la vigilia dora
de sueños, que bien pueden ser reflejos
truncos de los tesoros de la sombra,
de un orbe intemporal que no se nombra
y que el día deforma en sus espejos.
¿Quién serás esta noche en el oscuro
sueño, del otro lado de su muro?
Jorge Luis Borges
