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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: PAZ, OCTAVIO Matches Found: 361 Paz, Octavio Poet's Biography 361 poems available by this author ÁRBOL ADENTRO First Line: Crecio en mi Last Line: Acercate, lo oyes? Subject(s): Árboles (UNTITLED) First Line: The hand of day opens Last Line: And these few words 10 LINES FOR ANTONI TAPES First Line: On the municipal facades 1930: SCENIC VIEWS [VISTAS FIJAS] First Line: Who or what guided me? I was not searching for anything or anyone A DOOMED GARDEN Poem Text First Line: A garden is not a place Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening A TREE WITHIN Poem Text First Line: A tree grew inside my head Subject(s): Trees ACROSS [A TRAVES] First Line: I turn the page of the day AIRBORN: CONCLUSION [HIJOS DEL AIRE] First Line: Daughter I was of air, already ALONG GALEANA STREET [POR LA CALLE DE GALEANA] First Line: Hammers pound there above Last Line: One's afraid to close one's eyes ALTAR [CUSTODIA] First Line: A name %its shadows Last Line: One in the other %unnamed ALTHOUGH IT IS NIGHT [AUNQUE ES DE NOCHE] First Line: The night, at once both solid and empty APOTHOSIS OF DUPLEIX [APOTEOSIS DE DUPLEIX] First Line: Facing the sea, it unfolds APPARITION [APARICION] First Line: If man is dust Last Line: Those who go through the plain %are men AQUÍ First Line: Mis pasos en Last Line: Solo es real Subject(s): Solitario ARMS OF SUMMER [LAS ARMAS DEL VERANO] First Line: Hear the throbbing of space Last Line: The sun scatters with a wave ARMS OF THE TRADE First Line: Coat of arms: two knitting needles Last Line: An armor made of air %for the battle of two bodies Subject(s): Art And Artists AS ONE LISTENS TO THE RAIN Poem Text First Line: Listen to me as one listens to the rain, Subject(s): Rain AS ONE LISTENS TO THE RAIN [COMO QUIEN OYE LLOVER] First Line: Listen to me as one listens to the rain ASPIRATION [ASPIRACION] First Line: Shadows of white day AT THE DOOR Poem Text First Line: People, words, people Subject(s): Mexico AT THE DOOR First Line: People, words, people Last Line: Up there the moon, alone Subject(s): Mexico AUGURIES [AUGURIOS] First Line: Au naturel, in capsules, open AXIS [EJE] Poem Text First Line: Through the conduits of blood Variant Title(s): Axis Subject(s): Night; Bedtime AXIS [EJE] First Line: Through the conduits of blood Last Line: Spring of bones %spring of suns Variant Title(s): Axi Subject(s): Night BALCONY First Line: Stillness %in the middle of the night Last Line: I wait for my arrival BANG [DISPARO] First Line: The word leaps %ahead of thought BASHO AN First Line: The whole world fits in BEFORE THE BEGINNING [ANTES DEL COMIENZO] First Line: A confusion of sounds, an uncertain clarity BETWEEN GOING AND STAYING Poem Text First Line: Between going and staying the day wavers Subject(s): Love BETWEEN GOING AND STAYING First Line: Between going and staying the day wavers Last Line: I stay and go: I am a pause Subject(s): Love BETWEEN LEAVING AND STAYING First Line: A solid transparence, the day Last Line: Becoming the passage through which we continue BETWEEN WHAT I SEE AND WHAT I SAY Poem Text BETWEEN WHAT I SEE AND WHAT I SAY Last Line: The words open Subject(s): Language; Poetry And Poets BEYOND LOVE Poem Text First Line: Everything menaces us Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep; Bedtime BEYOND LOVE First Line: Everything menaces us Last Line: Pause of blood between this time and another without measure Subject(s): Bodies; Hearts; Night; Romance; Sleep BIRD First Line: In transparent silence Last Line: And in the flicker of an eye we die BIRD'S EYE VIEW [A VISTA DE PAJARO] First Line: Furiously %it whirls around BLACK AND WHITE STONE [PIEDRA BLANCA Y NEGRA] First Line: Sima %seeds a stone Last Line: Of the stone %opened with a glance BLANCO First Line: A stirring %a starting Last Line: Makes the watching real BLUE BOUQUET First Line: I woke covered with sweat Last Line: The next day I left town BOY AND TOP First Line: Each time he spins it Last Line: It lands, precisely, %at the center of the world BREATHING First Line: Still bodiless: %dishevelled spring Last Line: Time weighs a little less BRIDGE [EL PUENTE] First Line: Between now and then BROTHERHOOD [HERMANDAD] First Line: I am a man: little do I last Last Line: Someone spells me out Variant Title(s): Homage To Claudius Ptolem BRUSHES AWAKE First Line: Creature of wind, whirlwind of whitecaps Last Line: The box unfolds its wings and begins to fly Subject(s): Art And Artists BY THE STREAM Poem Text First Line: How rare, how lovely! BY THE STREAM [POR EL ARROYO] First Line: How rare, how lovely! CALM Poem Text First Line: Sand-clock moon Subject(s): Art & Artists CALM First Line: Sand-clock moon Last Line: The hour is lit Subject(s): Art And Artists CAPITAL First Line: The screaming crest of dawn flames. Last Line: The day with its hast foot crushes a small star CENTRAL PARK First Line: Green and black thickets, bare spots CERTAINTY Poem Text First Line: If it is real the white Subject(s): Writing & Writers CERTAINTY First Line: If it is real the white Last Line: Between two parentheses Subject(s): Writing And Writers CERTEZA First Line: Si es real la luz Last Line: Estre dos parentesis Subject(s): Escritura Y Escritores CIPHER Poem Text First Line: Wall tattooed with signs Subject(s): Art & Artists CIPHER First Line: Wall tattooed with signs Last Line: The undressed cipher of the daily beginning again Subject(s): Art And Artists CIPHER [CIFRA] CIRCULATORY POEM (FOR GENERAL DISORIENTATION) First Line: There %over the spiral path CLEAR NIGHT [NOCHE EN CLARO] First Line: At ten at night in the cafe d'angleterre COCHIN First Line: Standing on tiptoe COMING AND GOING [IDA Y VUELTA] First Line: Muddy november %stained stone, bruised bone CONCERT IN THE GARDEN (VINA AND MRIDANGAM) First Line: It rained %the hour is an enormous eye Last Line: I walk lost in my own center CONCORD [CONCORDE] First Line: Water above %grove below Last Line: Sky rising to the lips CONSTELLATION OF THE BODY First Line: Eyes born of night %are not eyes that see Last Line: It opens the eyes of men Subject(s): Art And Artists CONSTRAINT [APREMIO] First Line: Racing and lingering in my head COSANTE First Line: With a slit tongue COUNTERPARTS First Line: In my body you search the mountain DAILY FIRE [EL FUEGO DE CADA DIA] First Line: As the air %constructs and destroys DAWN First Line: Quick cold hands %one by one remove Last Line: I am alive %still %in the middle %of a wound still fresh DAWN [MADRUGADA] First Line: Cold rapid hands Last Line: Of a wound still fresh DAY IN UDAIPUR [EL DIA EN UDAIPUR] First Line: White palace %white on the black lake Last Line: What I've seen here, what I say, %the white sun erases DAY: I, 1 [DIA] First Line: Copious tree each day. This one DAY: I, 3 [DIA] First Line: Merely to be vegetable exclamations DAY: II, 2 [DIA] First Line: Day dawns through a promiscuous succession DAY: II, 4 [DIA] First Line: It dawns: with fingerings impalpable DAY: III, 1 [DIA] First Line: The city wakens to a din of chains DAY: III, 3 [DIA] First Line: Through to-ing, fro-ing, passers-by and cars DAYBREAK [MADRUGADA AL RASO] First Line: Hands and lips of wind Last Line: The sky walks the land Variant Title(s): Daybrea DISCOR First Line: Whispers and rapid steps DISTANT NEIGHBOR [PROJIMO LEJANO] First Line: Last night an ash tree Last Line: But didn't DISTICH AND VARIATIONS [DISTICO Y VARIACIONES] First Line: Language and its sacred conjunctions DOOMED GARDEN First Line: A garden is not a place Last Line: The fixed featureless splendor Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening DOOR Poem Text First Line: What's behind that door? Subject(s): Art & Artists DOOR First Line: What's behind that door? Last Line: What's behind that door? Subject(s): Art And Artists DRAFT OF SHADOWS [PASADO EN CLARO] First Line: Heard by the soul, footsteps Last Line: I am the shadow my words cast DREAM OF PENS First Line: The blue hand %has become a sketch pen Last Line: Tomorrow they will be fountains Subject(s): Art And Artists DRYAD WAR [LA GUERRA DE LA DRIADA] First Line: The huge dog opened its eyes DULCINEA OF MARCEL DUCHAMP First Line: Arduous yet plausible, the painting DURATION [DURACION] First Line: Sky black %yellow earth Last Line: (answer with a tower of birds) EFFECTS OF BAPTISM [EFECTOS DEL BAUTISMO] First Line: Young hassan %in order to marry a christian Last Line: And only one wife ENGAGED First Line: Stretched out on the grass %a boy and a girl Last Line: Saying nothing, never kissing, %giving silence for silence ENIGMA Poem Text First Line: We are born from a question Subject(s): Art & Artists ENIGMA First Line: We are born from a question Last Line: Universes in the form of questions Subject(s): Art And Artists ENRE IRSE Y QUEDARSE Last Line: Yo me quedo Subject(s): Amor ENTRE LO QUE VEO Y DIGO... Last Line: Las palabras se Subject(s): Lenguaje; PoesÍa Y Poetas EPITAPH FOR AN OLD WOMAN [EPITAFIO DE UNA VIEJA] First Line: They buried her in the family tomb EPITAPH FOR NO STONE [EPITAFIO SOBRE NINGUNA PIEDRA] First Line: Mixcoac was my village: three nocturnal syllables Last Line: My words were my house, air my tomb EVERYDAY FIRE First Line: Like the air %constructing and deconstructing Last Line: On the palm of space EXAMPLE [EJEMPLO] First Line: A butterfly flew between the cars EXAMPLE [EJEMPLO] First Line: Thunder crosses the plain EXCLAMATION [EL EXCLAMACION] First Line: Stillness %not on the branch Last Line: In the moment %hummingbird FABLE First Line: Ages of fire and of air Last Line: Broken mirrors where the world sees itself shattered Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FABLE First Line: Epochs of fire and air Last Line: Fragments that will never again cohere %broken mirrors in which the world sees itself massacred Subject(s): Native Americans - Pre-columbian FABLE OF JOAN MIRO [FABULA DE JOAN MIRO] First Line: Blue was immobilized between red and black FACE AND THE WIND [LA CARA Y EL VIENTO] First Line: Beneath an unrelenting sun Last Line: Turns on itself and is gone FACING TIME [CARA AL TIEMPO] First Line: Photos %time dangling from a verbal thread FIRE BY FRICTION [FUEGOS LUDRICOS] First Line: As time plays with us FLAME, SPEECH Poem Text First Line: I read in a poem Subject(s): Animals FLAME, SPEECH First Line: I read in a poem Last Line: To talk is human Subject(s): Animals FOR THE PAINTER SWAMINATHAN [AL PINTOR SWAMINATHAN] First Line: With a rag and a knife %against the fixed idea FOUR BLACK POPLARS First Line: As this line follows after itself Last Line: I see what we are: hallucinations FOUR POPARS [CUATRO CHOPOS] First Line: As if it were behind itself this line runs FRIENDSHIP [ARMISTAD] First Line: It is the awaited hour FULL WIND First Line: The present is perpetual GIRL First Line: The afternoon, its lazy ways Last Line: Was gazing where she'll never know Subject(s): Girls GIRL [NINA] First Line: Between the afternoon, resisting GOLDEN LOTUSES Poem Text First Line: Disheveled gardens Subject(s): Houses GOLDEN LOTUSES: 1 First Line: Neither hot coal %nor shot of sherry GOLDEN LOTUSES: 2 First Line: Thin and sinuous %as the magic rope GOLDEN LOTUSES: 3 First Line: Disheveled gardens %house as big as an estate Last Line: The woman is inhabited by the wind GROVE First Line: Enormous and solid %but swaying Last Line: Little by little the names petrify GROVE First Line: Enormous and solid Last Line: Little by little, the names petrify Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Trees HAPPINESS IN HERAT First Line: I came here %as I write these lines Last Line: Perfection of the finite HAPPINESS IN HERAT [FELICIDAD EN HERAT] First Line: I came here %as I write these lines HERE Poem Text First Line: My steps in this street / echo Last Line: Only the mist is real Subject(s): Fog; Haze HERE First Line: My footsteps in this street Last Line: Nothing is real but the fog Subject(s): Fog HERE First Line: My footsteps on this street Last Line: Stepping on this street %where %only the mist is real HERE First Line: My steps along this street Last Line: Only the mist is real Subject(s): Solitude HERE First Line: My steps in this street %echo Last Line: Where %only the mist is real Subject(s): Art And Artists HIMACHAL PRADESH: 1 First Line: I saw %at the foot of the ridge Last Line: Carry bundles bigger than those peaks HIMACHAL PRADESH: 2 First Line: Ours %head shaven, paunchy HIMACHAL PRADESH: 3 First Line: 5 little abominations %seen, heard, committed HIMNO ENTRE RUINAS First Line: Coronado de si Last Line: Palabras que son Subject(s): Ruinas HOUSE OF GLANCES [LA CASA DE LA MIRADA] First Line: You walk inside yourself, and the tenuous, meandering reflection that guides yo HOUSE: I, 2 [CASA] First Line: Yet we are born in houses we did not make HOUSE: I, 4 [CASA] First Line: Time unmakes and builds the house again HOUSE: II, 1 [CASA] First Line: House that memory makes out of itself HOUSE: II, 3 [CASA] First Line: House in which two pasts conjoin and two HOUSE: III, 2 [CASA] First Line: It was the blade of that same war graved deep HOUSE: III, 4 [CASA] First Line: I traced, not with ideas nor with stones HOUSE: IV [CASA] First Line: Houses that come and go within my head HUASTEC LADY First Line: She walks by the riverbank, naked, healthy, newly bathed, Last Line: Side of the road; by night a river that flows to the flank of man HURRY First Line: In spite of my torpor, my puffy eyes, Last Line: Saying good-by I'm in a hurry HURRY First Line: In spite of my torpor, my squinting eyes HYMN AMONG THE RUINS Poem Text First Line: Self crowned the day displays its plumage Subject(s): Ruins HYMN AMONG THE RUINS First Line: Self crowned the day displays its plumage Last Line: Words which are flowers become fruits which are deeds Subject(s): Ruins I SPEAK OF THE CITY [HABLO DE LA CIUDAD] First Line: A novelty today, tomorrow a ruin from the past, buried and resurrected every da Last Line: Birth to us and devours us, that creates us and forgets IDENTITY [IDENTIDAD] First Line: In the patio a bird squawks IDEOGRAM OF FREEDOM [IDEOGRAMA DE LIBERTAD] First Line: Sino = fate IMMEMORIAL LANDSCAPE [PAISAJE INMEMORIAL] First Line: Airily flutters %slips among branches Last Line: The million year old snow IMPERIAL FIREPLACE Poem Text First Line: Flames have turned to stone Subject(s): Art & Artists IMPERIAL FIREPLACE First Line: Flames have turned to stone Last Line: Enrusted on the facade of winter Subject(s): Art And Artists IMPREFACE [IMPROLOGO] First Line: They have asked me for a preface IN THE LODI GARDENS Poem Text First Line: The black, pensive, dense Last Line: Into the unanimous blue Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Cemeteries; Birds IN THE LODI GARDENS [EN LOS JARDINES DE LOS LODI] First Line: The black, pensive, dense %domes of the mausoleums Last Line: Into the unanimous blue IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS PHRASE [A LA MITAD DE ESTA FRASE] First Line: I am not at the top of the world Last Line: Mangled language. %poet: gardener of epitaphs IN UXMAL First Line: In the court, the sun stone, immobile Last Line: The gods drink blood, the gods eat man INDIA Poem Text First Line: These letters and sinuous lines Subject(s): Art & Artists INDIA First Line: These letters and sinuous lines Last Line: By the king of this world Subject(s): Art And Artists INKS AND TRANSFERS [TINTAS Y CALCOMANIAS] First Line: From the window of a dubious building wobbling on shifting sands INSOMNIAC [INSOMNE] First Line: Nightwatch of the mirror INTERIOR First Line: Warring thoughts try %to split my skull INTERRUPTIONS FROM THE WEST: 1 (RUSSIAN SONG) First Line: We build the canal INTERRUPTIONS FROM THE WEST: 2 (MEXICAN SONG) First Line: My grandfather, taking his coffee INTERRUPTIONS FROM THE WEST: 3 (MEXICO CITY:1968 OLUMPIAD) First Line: Lucidity %perhaps it's worth writing across the purity INTERRUPTIONS FROM THE WEST: 4 (PATIS: THE LUCID BLIND) First Line: In one of the suburbs of the absolute INTERVAL [INTERVALO] First Line: Instantaneous architectures %hanging over a pause INTO THE MATTER [ENTRADA EN MATERIA] First Line: Roar of engines %swollen rivers IS THERE NO WAY OUT? First Line: Dozing I hear an incessant Last Line: Am I or was I here JANUARY FIRST [PRIMERO DE ENERO] First Line: The year's doors open Last Line: And then we shall enter the unknown KEY OF WATER First Line: After rishikesh %the ganges is still green Last Line: That night I washed my hands in your breasts KEY OF WATER [LA LLAVE DE AGUA] First Line: After rishikesh %the ganges is still green Last Line: That night I dipped my hands in your breasts KOSTAS PAPAIOANNOU (1925-1981) First Line: I was 30, came from america, and was searching in the ashes of 1946 LA ARBOLEDA First Line: Enorme y solida Last Line: Poco a poco se Subject(s): Árboles; Hojas De Un Árbol; Naturaleza LAGO First Line: Entre montanas aridas Last Line: Y un naufragio Subject(s): Agua; Desastres; Lagos; Naves Y EnvÍo LAKE Poem Text First Line: Between arid mountains Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water; Pools; Ponds LAKE First Line: Between arid mountains Last Line: And an infinite shipwreck Subject(s): Disasters; Lakes; Shipwrecks; Water LAMP [LAMPARA] First Line: Embracing and clawing %the bodiless night LANDSCAPE [PAISAJE] First Line: Rock and precipice %more time than stone, this timeless matter Last Line: No more than our shadows LAST DAWN Poem Text First Line: Your hair lost in the forest Subject(s): Mexico LAST DAWN First Line: Your hair lost in the forest Last Line: Will tomorrow be another day? Subject(s): Mexico LETTER OF TESTIMONY; CANTATA [CARTA DE CREENCIA] First Line: There is an uncertain territory LETTER TO LEON FELIPE [CARTA A LEON FELIPE] First Line: Leon %fifth sign of the revolving sky LETTER TO TWO STRANGERS First Line: I still do not know your name. I feel LIGHTNING AT REST First Line: Stretched out, %stone made of noon Last Line: The sea fighting far off with its swords and feathers LUIS CERNUDA (1902-1963) First Line: Neither andalusian swan %nor luxurious bird MÁS ALLÁ DEL AMOR First Line: Todo nos amenaza Last Line: Pausa de sangre Subject(s): Corazones; Cuerpos; Noche; Romance; SueÑo MADRIGAL First Line: More transparent %than this water dropping Last Line: You were born to live on an island MADURAI First Line: In the bar at the british club MAITHUNA First Line: My eyes discover you Last Line: From danger drawn MARVELS OF THE WILL First Line: At precisely three o'clock don pedro MAUSOLEUM OF HUMAYUN [EL MAUSOLEO DE HUMAYUN] First Line: To the debate of wasps Last Line: Time in repose above the water %silence's architecture MISTERIO First Line: Relumbra el aire Last Line: Pero no ve al Subject(s): Ausencia MOTION Poem Text First Line: If you are the amber mare Subject(s): Relationships MOTION [MOVIMIENTO] First Line: If you are the amber mare MUTRA First Line: Like a too-loving mother, a terrible mother of suffocation Last Line: Plant it in my being: it must grow one day MYSTERY Poem Text First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters Subject(s): Absence; Mystery; Separation; Isolation MYSTERY First Line: Glittering of air, it glitters Last Line: But he sees no sun Subject(s): Absence; Mystery NAGARJUNA First Line: Niego = I negate %deny NATIVE STONE Poem Text First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Subject(s): Insomnia; Light; Sleeplessness NATIVE STONE First Line: Light is laying waste the heavens Last Line: Whatever is not stone is light Subject(s): Insomnia; Light NATURAL BEING First Line: The blues, spreading their robes ... NEAR CAPE COMORIN [CERCA DEL CABO COMORIN] First Line: In a land-rover stalled in a flooded field NIGHT, DAY, NIGHT First Line: Stream of light: a bird NIGHTFALL [UN ANOCHECER] First Line: What sustains it %half-open, the clarity of nightfall Last Line: The world is less credible NOMADIC GARDENS [JARDINES ERRANTES] First Line: Between the snow and the brown earth NOTATIONS / ROTATIONS [ANOTACIONES / ROTACIONES] First Line: Two in one OBJECT LESSON First Line: Over the bookcase Last Line: But sometimes they speak with us OBJECTS Poem Text First Line: They live alongside us Subject(s): Mexico OBJECTS First Line: They live alongside us Last Line: But sometimes they speak with us Subject(s): Mexico OBJECTS & APPARITIONS [OBJETOS Y APARICIONES] First Line: Hexahedrons of wood and glass Last Line: My words became visible for a moment OBJEXTS & APPARITIONS First Line: Hexahedrons of wood and glass Last Line: My words became visible for a moment OBLIVION First Line: Close your eyes and lose yourself in darkness OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY First Line: They killed my brothers, my children Last Line: To read the inscription of your fate ODD OR EVEN [PARES Y NONES] First Line: A weightless word %to greet the day OLD POEM First Line: Escorted by obstinate memories, I take ON THE ROADS OF MYSORE [POR LOS CAMINOS DE MYSORE] First Line: Blue rocks, ruddy plains %purple stony ground, clusters of cacti Last Line: Is worth as much as mayarit and its tiger of alica ON THE WING Poem Text First Line: Little sun / silent on the table Last Line: Diaphanous arrival Subject(s): Sky; Vision; Sun ON THE WING: 1 [AL VUELO] First Line: Little sun %silent on the table Last Line: It lacks something: %night Subject(s): Oranges ON THE WING: 2. ANCIENT LANDSCAPE First Line: High sun. The plain sleeps ON THE WING: 2. EPITAPH FOR A DANDY First Line: In a cemetery of neckties ON THE WING: 2. IN DEFENSE OF PYRRHO First Line: Julian, you've cured %my fears, but not my doubts Last Line: And you -- how do you know Variant Title(s): In Defense Of Pyrrh ON THE WING: 2. THE CONSTELLATION OF VIRGO First Line: Hypathia, if I look at the pure lights ONE AND THE SAME Poem Text First Line: Spaces / space Last Line: Place of impalpable nuptials Subject(s): Webern, Anton (1883-1945) ONE AND THE SAME (ANTON WEBERN, 1883-1945) [LO IDENTICO] First Line: Spaces, space %without center no above or below ONE DAY AMONG MANY [UN DIA DE TANTOS] First Line: Flood of suns %we see nothing seeing everything OOCTACAMUND [UTACAMUD] First Line: In the nilgiri hills %I went looking for the todas Last Line: The charitable stars %not crushing -- calling me ORACLE [ORACULO] First Line: The cold lips of the night %utter a word OTHER [EL OTRO] First Line: He invented a face for himself Last Line: His wrinkles have no face PARABOLA OF MOVEMENT [PARABOLA DEL MOVIMIENTO] First Line: Where are you coming from? PASSAGE First Line: More than air Last Line: Your body is the trace of your body PASSAGE; Poem Text First Line: More than air Last Line: Your body is the trace of your body Subject(s): Body, Human PASSIONAL LANDSCAPE [PAISAJE PASIONAL] First Line: The beak of the solar bird pecks apart the heart of space PAUSE First Line: There come to me %certain birds Last Line: My life, very much like life, is flowing on PAUSE; IN MEMORY OF PIERRE REVERDY [PAUSA] First Line: They've come %a few birds PEAK AND GRAVITY [CIMA Y GRAVEDAD] First Line: There is a motionless tree PEDESTRIAN [PEATON] First Line: He walked among the crowds PERPETUA ENCARNADA First Line: Intricate gardens tremble PIEDRA NATIVA First Line: La luz de vasta Last Line: Lo que no es Subject(s): Insomnio; Luz PILLARS [PILARES] First Line: The plaza is tiny PLACE [PARAJE] First Line: The road with no name PLAIN First Line: The anthill erupts. Last Line: Explosion of this minute that never passes, that only burns and never passes POET First Line: Music and bread, milk and wine, love and sleep: free. Last Line: You need a strong philosophy POET'S EPITAPH First Line: He tried to sing, singing Last Line: His lying life of truths POET'S WORKS: 11 First Line: It hovers, creeps in, comes close, withdraws, turns on tiptoe Last Line: Fascinated, follows him inward, each time further inward POET'S WORKS: 12 First Line: After chop.Ping off all the arms that reached out to me Last Line: The humid, tender, insistent onset of spring POET'S WORKS: 3 First Line: Everyone had left the house. Around eleven I noticed Last Line: Feather between my livid hands POET'S WORKS: 4 First Line: Lying on my bed, I crave the brute sleep, the mummy's sleep Last Line: It is the great trowels of silence falling in the silence POET'S WORKS: 7 First Line: I write on the glimmering table, my pen resting heavily Last Line: To make the world burst. But tonight there is no room for a single word more PREPARATORY EXERCISE [EJERCICIO PREPARATORIO] First Line: The hour empties out Last Line: With the three states of time and the five directions PROEM Poem Text First Line: At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of speech and the vertigo of death Subject(s): Poetry & Poets PROEM First Line: At times poetry is the vertigo of bodies and the vertigo of Last Line: Syllables seeds PROOF [PRUEBA] First Line: Her skin, saffron toasted in the sun PROVERB Poem Text First Line: Mud in a still puddle Subject(s): Proverbs; Maxims; Adages PROVERB First Line: Mud in a still puddle Last Line: Tomorrow dust %dancing in the streets Subject(s): Proverbs PUEBLO First Line: Las piedras son Last Line: No hay agua Subject(s): Campos; Piedras QUARTET Poem Text First Line: A landscape familiar but always strange Subject(s): Landscape; Seashore; Tourists; Beach; Coast; Shore QUARTET First Line: A landscape familiar yet always strange READING JOHN CAGE [LECTURA DE JOHN CAGE] First Line: Read, unread %music without measurements RELEASE [SOLUTRA] First Line: In a [or, beneath the] rain of drums Last Line: Among the unbound elements RELIEFS Poem Text First Line: The rain, dancing, long-haired Subject(s): Mexico RELIEFS First Line: The rain, dancing, long-haired Last Line: The corn opens its eyes, and grows Subject(s): Mexico RELIGIOUS FIG First Line: Wind, %the fruit thieves Last Line: The fig tree creeps, rises up, and strangles itself REPITITIONS [REPETICIONES] First Line: The heart and its passionate drumroll RESPIRATION [ESPIRACION] First Line: Skies of the end of the world. Five o'clock RETURN (FOR JOSE ALVARADO) First Line: Voices at the corner's turn Last Line: The present is untouchable Variant Title(s): Retur RETURN [REGRESO] First Line: You spread out beneath my eyes REVERSIBLE First Line: In space %I am inside of me Last Line: I am %in space %etcetera REVERSIBLE MONUMENT [MONUMENTO REVERSIBLE] REVOLVING HOUSE [LA CASA GIRATORIA] First Line: There is a wooden house RIDDLE [ACERTIJO] First Line: Lord of the vertigo RIPRAP First Line: Cry, barb, tooth, howls Last Line: But the stars told me nothing RIVER First Line: The restless city circles in my blood like a bee Last Line: Images and coils within itself ROTATION [ROTACION] First Line: Tall column of pulsebeats ROYAL HUNT Poem Text First Line: The woes of a taxidermist Subject(s): Taxidermy & Taxidermists ROYAL HUNT [CAZA REAL] First Line: The woes of a taxidermist Subject(s): Taxidermy And Taxidermists SALAMANDER First Line: Salamander %(the fire wears Last Line: Fire is her passion, her patience %salamander - salamater SALAMANDER [SALAMANDRA] First Line: Salamaner %the fire wears black armor SAME TIME [EL MISMO TIEMPO] First Line: It is not the wind SAN ILDEFONSO NOCTURNE [NOCTURNO DE SAN IDLEFONSO] First Line: In my window night Last Line: I am bound to her quiet flowing SCRAWL [GARABATO] First Line: With a piece of charcoal SHARJ TEPE First Line: Lion a lion sprawled SHARJ TEPE First Line: Like a ton sprawled Last Line: Amidst so much death SIGHT AND TOUCH First Line: The light holds them - weightless, real SIGHT, TOUCH First Line: Light holds between its hands Last Line: Light is time reflecting on time SKIN OF THE WORLD, THE SOUND OF THE WORLD' First Line: Black on white Last Line: Breathes still equal to itself: %reconquered space SMALL VARIATION [PEQUENA VARIACION] First Line: Like music come back to life Last Line: And closes over me and is pure time SNAPSHOTS First Line: They appear, disappear, come back, chirp in the branches of the tree of nerves Last Line: Presences, seeds of time: at the wrong time SOLO FOR TWO VOICES [SOLO A DOS VOCES] First Line: If saying no %to the world to the present SONG OUT OF TUNE [CANCION DESENTONADA] First Line: The day is short %the hour long SPOKEN WORD [LA PALABRA DICHA] First Line: The word lifts %from the written page STANZAS FOR AN IMAGINARY GARDEN First Line: Four adobe walls. Bougainvillea Last Line: In me you endure, in me you vanish STARS AND CRICKET First Line: The sky's big Last Line: Brace and bit STORM [TEMPORAL] First Line: On the black mountain STREET First Line: Hers is a long and silent street Last Line: And rises and stays when he sees me: nobody Subject(s): Streets SUMMIT AND GRAVITY Poem Text First Line: Hers is a long and silent street Last Line: Transparent balance Subject(s): Trees SUN ON A BLANKET [SOL SOMBRE UNA MANTA] First Line: Riddled with light SUN STONE First Line: Willow of crystal, a poplar of water Last Line: Advances and retreats, goes roundabout, %arriving forever SUN STONE, SELS. First Line: Names, places, street and streets; faces SUNDAY ON THE ISLAND OF ELEPHANTA First Line: At the feet of the sublime sculptures Last Line: The barefoot light on the sleeping land and sea SUNSTONE [PIEDRA DE SOL] First Line: A crystal willow, a poplar of water Last Line: Doubles back, and comes full circle, %forever arriving SUNYATA First Line: At the limits Last Line: The day - the tree SWAY [VAIVEN] First Line: Night comes back TALE OF TWO GARDENS [CUENTO DE DOS JARDINS] First Line: A house, a garden %are not places Last Line: The signs are erased: %I watch clarity TANGHI-GARU PASS First Line: Slashed earth: %winter marked the land with its weapons Last Line: Death thinks us THE ARMS OF THE TRADE Poem Text First Line: Coat of arms: two knitting needles Subject(s): Art & Artists THE BALCONY Poem Text First Line: Stillness / in the middle of the night Last Line: I wait for my arrival Subject(s): Delhi, India; Night THE BRUSHES AWAKE Poem Text First Line: Creature of wind, whirlwind of whitecaps Subject(s): Art & Artists THE CONSTELLATION OF THE BODY Poem Text First Line: Eyes born of night / are not eyes that see Subject(s): Art & Artists THE DREAM OF PENS Poem Text First Line: The blue hand / has become a sketch pen Subject(s): Art & Artists THE GROVE Poem Text First Line: Enormous and solid Last Line: Little by little the names petrify Subject(s): Trees THE MAUSOLEUM OF HUMAYAN Poem Text First Line: To the debate of wasps Last Line: Silence's architecture Subject(s): Cemeteries THEN PETRIFYING PETRIFIED [PETRIFICADA PETRIFICANTE] First Line: Deadland %shadowland cactideous nopalopolis Last Line: Where is the other water THIS AND THIS AND THIS [ESTO Y ESTO Y ESTO] First Line: Surrealism has been the apple of fire on the tree of syntax THIS SIDE Poem Text First Line: There is light. We neither see nor touch it Last Line: I hear light beat on the other side Subject(s): Light THIS SIDE [ESTE LADO] First Line: There is light. We neither see nor touch it Last Line: I hear the light beat on the other side Subject(s): Sutherland, Donald (b. 1935) TOAST [BRINDIS] First Line: In san juan de los lagos TOMB OF AMIR KHUSRU First Line: Trees heavy with birds hold Last Line: Each poem is time, and it burns TOMB OF THE POET First Line: The book %the glass Last Line: I shall never know my bond's undoing TOMB OF THE POET [TUMBA DEL POETA] First Line: The book %the glass TOMB [LAUDA] First Line: Eyes marrow shadows white day TOUCH [PALPAR] First Line: My hands %open the curtains of your being Last Line: Invent another body for your body Variant Title(s): Touc TOWARD THE POEM First Line: Words, the profits of a quarter-hour wrenched from the charred tree Last Line: Deserve your dream TRANSIT First Line: Lighter than air Last Line: Your body is the footprint of your body TRAVELERS' PALM [PALMA DEL VIAJERO] First Line: Palm of the earth TREE WITHIN First Line: A tree grew inside my head Last Line: Come closer-can you hear it? Subject(s): Trees TROWBRIDGE STREET First Line: Sun throughout the day Last Line: Talking to it I talk to you TWO BODIES First Line: Two bodies face to face Last Line: Are two stars falling %in an empty sky USTICA First Line: The successive suns of summer VIENTO, AGUA, PIEDRA First Line: El agua horada Last Line: Agua, piedra, viento Subject(s): VacÍo VILLAGE Poem Text First Line: The stones are time Last Line: There is no water here for all the lustre of its eyes Subject(s): Time VILLAGE First Line: The stones are time Last Line: There is no water here for all the luster of its eyes VILLAGE First Line: The stones are time Last Line: There is no water here for all the lustre of its eyes Subject(s): Villages VISION Poem Text First Line: I saw myself when I shut my eyes Last Line: Where I am and am not Subject(s): Vision VISION First Line: I saw myself when I shut my eyes Last Line: I saw myself when I shut my eyes: %space, space %where I am and am not VISION First Line: I saw myself when I shut my eyes Last Line: Where I am and am not Subject(s): Mexico VRINDABAN First Line: Surrounded by night %immense forest of Last Line: I move in the dark %I plant signs WAKING [UN DESPERTAR] First Line: I was walled inside a dream WAKING [UN DESPERTAR] First Line: I was walled up inside my dream Last Line: Already the constellations were being erased WALKIING THROUGH THE NIGHT [ANDANDO POR LA LUZ] First Line: You lift your left %foot forward WALL First Line: Let me remember you or dream you WATER AND WIND [AGUA Y VIENTO] First Line: Spreading water you sparkle WATER NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles Last Line: Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul Subject(s): Eyes; Silence; Solitude WATER NIGHT First Line: Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles in the Last Line: Night brings its wetness to beaches in your soul WATER NIGHT First Line: Night with the eyes of a horse that trembles Last Line: Night brings its wetness to beaches in %your soul Subject(s): Mexico WHERE WITHOUT A WHO [DONDE SIN QUIEN] First Line: There's not %a soul among these trees WHITE HUNTRESS First Line: Not too far from the dark bungalow WIND AND NIGHT [VIENTO Y NOCHE] First Line: Hour of wind WIND AND WATER AND STONE Poem Text First Line: The water hollowed the stone Subject(s): Emptiness WIND AND WATER AND STONE First Line: The water hollowed the stone Last Line: Water and stone and wind Subject(s): Emptiness WIND CALLED BOB RAUCHENBERG First Line: Landscape fallen from saturn WIND FROM ALL COMPASS POINTS First Line: The present is motionless Last Line: The world wrenches up its roots, %our bodies %stretched out %weigh no more than dawn WITH EYES CLOSED First Line: With eyes closed %you light up inside %you are blind stone Last Line: Just by knowing each other %with eyes closed WITH EYES CLOSED [CON LOS OJOS CERRADOS] First Line: With eyes closed %you light up within Last Line: With eyes closed WITH YOU [CONTIGO] First Line: Turquoise blasts of wind Last Line: I inhabit a transparency WORDS IN THE SHAPE OF A CLOUD OF DUST First Line: I open the window WORKS OF THE POET First Line: At three twenty as at nine forty-four, disheveled at dawn and pale at Last Line: A single time in a single intrminable phrase, sourceless, endless, senseless WRITING [ESCRITURA] First Line: I draw these letters Last Line: And does not return WRITTEN WORD [LA PALABRA ESCRITA] First Line: Written now the first %word YOUR FACE First Line: A hand-whose hands? Last Line: Fountain of truths just born Subject(s): Art And Artists YOUTH First Line: The leap of the wave Last Line: Each day %younger %death |
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