A poem has to be hard
to soften the enemies of poems.
It must be dry after long watery days
at the end of the world.
Sometimes poems just quit out of spite
and lightly and there is no poetry anymore,
only mountains and stars, only sunset and sunrise,
only sleeping peoples.
E. A. Costa (from E. A. Costa, The Bennington Collection, April, 2013 Bennington, Vermont)
Un poema tiene que ser duro
y a la ligera y no hay más poesía,
sólo montañas y estrellas, la puesta y salida del sol,
sólo pueblos dormidos.
Tr. EAC
E. A. Costa April 27, 2016 Granada, Nicaragua
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