Out of bright transparent air
descends a swarm of cloudless sulphur butterflies,
gyring and fluttering to the strand
like leaves in meteoric autumn.
As quickly as they fall wings reborn
fly up from the sand and off,
for here there is no autumn--
only milky-toothed summer surf
forever smiling in warm foam.
E. A. Costa November 16, 2015 San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua
un enjambre de mariposas de azufre
cristalino,
flotan como alas arriba y se vuelan,
porque aquí no hay ningún otoño--
sólo cachones de estío con colmillos
lechosos
que ríen sin fin en la espuma cálida.
Tr. E. A. Costa
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N.B: Phoebis Sennae, commonly called the "cloudless sulphur
butterfly" in English (mariposa de azufre cristalino), in Spanish
simply "Febo".
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