For doctors, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from On This Earth / by Blas de Otero (Spanish, 1916-1979)
(Chest
shaped like
Spain.)
Get lots of air, the doctor
told me
20th-Century Spanish Poetry
DPF / Cuadra
For archipelagos, from Selected Translations, by WS Merwin.
from The Girls / by Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Spanish, 1912-2002)
Like flowers floating
like garlands
of happy colors.
DPF / Salinas
For gold and islands, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from Not in marble palaces / by Pedro Salinas (Spanish, 1892-1951)
Roofs sheltered us.
Less than roofs, clouds.
Less than clouds: skies.
Still less: air, nothing.
DPF / Guillén
For gulls, from A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Flight / by Jorge Guillén (1893-1984)
All of space is a wave transfixed.
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