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Brotherhood/Hermanadad Octavio Paz

 

Soy hombre: duro poco
y es enorme la noche,
Pero miro hacia arriba:
las estrellas escriben.
Sin entender comprendo:
también soy excritura
y en este mismo instante
alguien me deletrea.

I am a man: little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.

Translated by Eliot Weiberger
From Octavio Paz: Collected Poems 1957-1987
Copyright © 1987, 1988 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger
Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation

 
 


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