hat with animal ears

(by nathalie ericson via sweetspider on tumblr)

The great equation.

Herrera y Reissig: Nocturno

Into the country we’ll go, like your breath
it perfumes the wind,
like your mouth the flower it is;
so that the earth will bloom, everything,
in order that a wedding
rejoice that the world is full of love!

As all the roses tremble, go;
the butterflies
seem shapes of white tulle,
& even the stars are like irises,
they seem candles
in some great sanctuary, azure temple!

See that nest on the branch?
It says: love!
And my arbor says: come!
And a single boat alone & oarless
says: we will go
in mere hours, all the way to Eden.

Full of jewels climbing you,
it’s even a banner
of some great feast, Barmecide’s;
it seems a wing on the wind afloat,
it is a ladder
& it makes my heart soar.

A treasure of stars of gold,
the camomiles
some virgin makes to germinate;
they are droplets of efflorescence
from some essence
the same sky loved sowing.

Let’s go to the country, go to the sky;
you are the flight,
I am that rose’s shade;
I am the bard of a rustic dream,
you the cerulean
aerial bed of nuptial luminescence.

Together the branches form a bow
& a green embrace
inside of the arbor vitae, cup of fragrance;
weakly the breeze, over there in the thicket,
imitates a kiss,
kiss made song for that it is only love.

Let’s hie to the country, cold all over, there,
if there is not a river
of rubicund phrases so I can make it burn;
if focus of secret light is missing, if there
is not a poet,
no caresses, & no woman there!

See the moon: it pours glorious
as a white foam rose,
sibling to the sea,
let’s go, fear not, for I am watching you
& in a sigh
I offer you a world that’s taking off!

In this vernal dusk
if someone were to see us
across the fields, both of us silent,
he would be moved, he would exclaim:
Poetry
wanders among flowers & it talks with God!

Let’s go at once, to the meadow we’ll go
& blind at your side
inspiriting you, ever will I run,
& till the birds burst out in furious song,
believing, when they see you,
some great dawn has descended.