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Poetry
The Bird Bush
You ask what I’ve seen and I’ll tell you:
today I saw the fleet-footed herd
listening and turned
toward me, the dog, their ears
high and shifting as birds shift
en masse
Two days ago along the tracks
how birds were like seeds
scattered like that
lifting from the tips of branches
as though they’d sprouted there
buds of a desert plant
Clouds of birds
raining along the ground
the bird bush bare
seeds dispersing pale and fleet
as antelope, turning and turning, leaves
in the desert
Turning and white
magical creatures, light-
footed and leaping silent across
sand roads enchanted, born of a wild bush
somewhere, silver-leaved and white,
dropped when the desert stripped itself of light.
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Sin Titulo
¿Que y cual es el absoluto?
Clavelitos
Crecen salvajes in los
Cerros,
Frágil y tiernos
Debajo la sombra de los Pinos.
Niños pasan por allí
En la calma que es el amanecer,
Fuerte el perfume que
Llama la abeja.
What and where is the absolute?
Dianthus grows
Wild in the hills
Fragile under the
Umbra of Pines,
Fragile and tender
Under the
Umbra of Pines,
Children pass by
In the early morning calm,
Fragrant is the scent that
Attracts the bee.
j vigil martinez