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Wall Gabriela Mistral

 

Simple and extraordinary wall.
Wall without weight and without color;
a hint of air in the air.

From a hillside, birds pass,
light passes like as wing,
the edge of winter passes
like a breath of summer.
A leafy wind
and embodied shadows pass.

But a sigh does not break bounds,
arms do not meet,
and no heart-to-heart is made flesh.

From Gabriela Mistral: A Reader edited by Marjorie Agosin
English translation copyright © 1993 by Maria Giachetti
Reprinted by permission of White Pine Press

 
 


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