DPF / Chocano

For hammocks and kings, from The FSG Book of Twentieth Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.

from A Manifesto / by José Santos Chocano (Peru, 1875-1934), translated by Andrew Rosing

When I feel Incan, I honor that king,
the Sun, who offers me the scepter of his royal power;
when I feel Spanish, I invoke the empire