I am catching up in the garden, pulling out the bolted lettuce. It is as if the June heat gave every plant, weed and seed a boost of energy. The scattering of shade created poems of light and shadow in the long June day.
With shadows I draw worlds,
I scatter worlds with shadows.
I hear the light beat on the other side.
-- Octavio Paz, from "This Side," The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987, trans. Eliot Weinberger (New Directions, 1987)
With shadows I draw worlds,I scatter worlds with shadows.
I hear the light beat on the other side.
-- Octavio Paz, from "This Side," The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz: 1957-1987, trans. Eliot Weinberger (New Directions, 1987)
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