I have risen but
Have not shone, and will not do.
Remind me at noon.

Amables Brasas en ascuas
descienden de un cielo de mosto
alcanzando la carnosa fatiga
de las ramas y de tus dudas
Como dibujos de tinta
caminan los animales en celo
y un murmullo de elfos
empuja hongos y furias
hasta el borde del frío
donde la tierra se empapa
de calma y de lumbre.

Es Otoño, y hay luz en tu casa
Una luz antigua que me ampara
y me guia, siluetas amables
que invitan y esperan
al que llega
siempre tarde del bosque.

Un suelo tibio
de pisadas y hocicos
crepita suave en las repisas doradas
un terco ajetreo vegetal y manso
se desliza bajo los pies descalzos
de un corzo mudo y dorado
que llena de asombro
la mañana de rocio tejida.

Es horizontal la intimidad
entre las viñas desposeídas
y los árboles insomnes.
Los soles maduros acumulan
sus frutas sobre el techo de la tarde
y todo lo que tiembla al norte del aire
se pudre mansamente
hacia los tesoros de marzo.

Un olor a nueces iza banderas de humo
y carne de castañas exhibe el crepúsculo
Una canción se esconde y se escucha
y unas muchachas se persiguen
y se esconden cantando
un estribillo prestado por el viajero perdido.

Hay voces prendidas en las ventanas
que arden lentamente
como adioses marchitos
Es tiempo de regresos y
dormidas semillas, y de animales
rumiando los breves días
y las largas noches henchidas de cuentos

El vino más joven
ya rezuma en las jarras
un mosto agridulce
parece exprimido del cielo
No hay prisa pues la luz es lenta
en llegar a las cocinas de Otoño
perpetuamente encendidas
con los rescoldos de los soles más viejos.

Hermosura
del discurrir de orillas.
interrogaciones como faíscas()
TODO EL SILENCIO PARA MI.



                                (hablando con ella que heredo su sombrero)
() pavesas, en galego

She couldn't be a mortal, just simply born;
but truly a goddess, ignited, free from form.
-
The day the ground met with her delicate toes
was the night the stars aligned in symmetrical rows.
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In dream, she dances and glides upon air.
Awake, she braids comets in the threads of her hair.
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My greetings seem hollowed, I am drifting afloat.
The language of fondness is a lump in my throat.
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Her outline is gleaming with a soft, vermilion luster.
Her eyes, subtle jasper, urges your core not to trust her.
-
Not a staza, nor an epic can contain flawless grace,
or the yearning I feel when we are sharing this space.

His belly full up

    of castigation,

she could finally

      shed her tears

'neath thundering

     sleeplessness

'til the giant was

       once again roused,

    to commence forthwith

       consummating

          another imperfect storm

Ribbons calling against the wind,
stronger than our fences.
   Ribbons crawling to our feet
speak of our potential--
   They break our defenses

I remember the flowers you wore in your hair
when you were my bride at nineteen.
Their bright colors kept all the dark clouds at bay
Or at least so it seemed then to me.

And their fragrance so rare drove some boys to despair
on the day that you married with me.
Your sweet song of youth left no need for a proof
Of how happy together we’d be.

I remember the flowers you held in your hands
On our tenth anniversary day;
Their bright colors kept all the dark clouds at bay
Or at least so it seemed then to me.

And their fragrance so rare drove some men to despair
to think that your hand wasn’t free.
The red blush of your lips as you turned for a kiss
Said no man was more happy than me.

I remember the rosary they placed in your hands
On the day that Death took you, I keened.
It seemed but a moment since you were my bride
And I was a groom of nineteen

All the flowers so rare that they piled on you bier
Both my sisters said they were lovely
I scarcely saw colors with eyes filled with tears
And the blooms held no fragrance for me.

I tend now the flowers that grow by your stone
Their fragrance reminds me of you.
I long for the day the Lord calls me away
And I’ll be reunited with you