DPF / Martí

For mountains and crossing them, from The FSG Book of Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.

from Simple Verses / by José Martí (1853-1895, Cuba) translated by Esther Allen

        I hear a sigh that passes
over lands and seas,
and it is not a sigh — it is
my son, awakening from sleep.

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