THIS SAME SKY by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Author:NAOMI SHIHAB NYE
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ALADDIN PAPERBACKS
Published: 1992-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

LOSSES : “ Kissed Trees ”

What is it that upsets the volcanoes

that spit fire, cold and rage?

Why wasn’t Christopher Columbus

able to discover Spain?

How many questions does a cat have?

Do tears not yet spilled

wait in small lakes?

Or are they invisible rivers

that run toward sadness?

Pablo Neruda

Chile

Translated by William O’Daly

THERE’S AN ORANGE TREE OUT THERE

There’s an orange tree out there, behind that old,

abandoned garden wall,

but it’s not the same orange tree we planted,

and it’s a beautiful orange tree

so beautiful it makes us remember

that orange tree we planted

—in our earth—

before coming to this house

so distant and remote from that one

where we planted an orange tree

and even saw it—like this one—in flower.

Alfonso Quijada Urías

El Salvador

Translated by Darwin J. Flakoll

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