Miguel Hernandez by Hernandez Miguel

Author:Hernandez, Miguel [Hernandez, Miguel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781590177143
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2013-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

III. Child of Light and Shadow

Woven in the dawn, engraved, two honeycombs

can’t hold back the honey from their nipples.

Your breasts in the dawn: maternal springs

that struggle, that rush with white effusions.

Your veins have overflowed, my wife, like the moon,

till they flood the house your savor fills.

And it is as if you oozed from a village of beehives,

you, a whole beehive of foaming milk.

As if your blood were all sweetness,

busy bees filtering through your pores.

I hear a commotion of milk, of flooding, of the marriage

beside you, overrun with resounding abundance.

Abundant woman: I bury myself in your womb.

Your plentiful womb will be my grave.

If my bones burned with iron flame

they would see that I carry your image engraved there.

We are forged together forever in our child:

a fusion our greedy desires long for—

our two branches in one bough of time, and blood;

our two sheaves in one bundle of caresses, and hair.

The dead, burning with frozen fire,

throb stubbornly inside the living:

a child is coming to take up the fields and house

that you and I are leaving, though we stay close by.

We will make this child a generative support,

and he will make final matter of our flesh:

where his hands and breath set down his soul,

propellers will whirl, crops will prosper.

Loose fragment of our own two fragments,

he will make sure that this life is not discarded;

of our two mouths he will make one sword,

and of our four arms, two eternal arms.

I do not love you alone: I love you in your ancestors,

and in all who will descend from your womb tomorrow.

Because the human race has been given as my heritage

the child’s family will be the human race.

With love in our care, asleep and awake,

we will always be kissing in our deep child.

Kissing each other, our dead are kissing,

the first inhabitants of the world are kissing.

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