Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Cuban poet nancy Morejon

Here is a poem by Cuban poet Nancy Morejon:

Divertimento

for the pleasure of Rafael Alberti

Between the sword and the carnation,
I love utopias.
I love the rainbow and the kite
and I love the song of the pilgrim.
I love the romance between the bear and the iguana.
I love passports: when will passports cease to exist?
I love daily chores and the taverns
and guitars in the evening.
I love a thorny island in the throat of Goliath
like a palm tree in the center of the Gulf.
I love David.
I love liberty, which is an everlasting flower.


and another:

As in days gone by

We could sit down, as in days gone by,
to read the famous writer's last book.
We prefer the river, the dam, the bird,
the bottom of the heart open
for the reaper.
O what blessed smoke from the future
vanishes between our hands.

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