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Miguel Hernández

Miguel Hernández: I Walk On In Shade, Filled With Light,    Translation by Renato Rosaldo

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

I walk on in shade, filled with light: does day exist? Is this my tomb or my maternal dome? A pulsing beats against my skin like a cold shard that sprouts, hot, red, tender. Perhaps I’ve not yet been born, or have always been dead. Shade rules me. If this is life, what could death […]

Filed Under: contributors 69, Issue 69, Poetry, Poetry 69 Tagged With: Contributors 69, Miguel Hernández, Poetry, Poetry 69

Miguel Hernández: Lullaby of the onion,    Translation by Renato Rosaldo

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

The onion is frost closed and poor. Frost of your days and my nights. Hunger and onion, black ice and frost, big and round. My child was in a cradle of hunger. He nursed on onion blood. But your blood, frosted with sugar, onion and hunger. Dissolved into moon, a dark woman pours thread by […]

Filed Under: contributors 69, Issue 69, Poetry, Poetry 69 Tagged With: Contributors 69, Miguel Hernández, Poetry, Poetry 69

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