Border of a Dream by Barnstone Willis Machado Antonio

Author:Barnstone, Willis, Machado, Antonio [Barnstone, Willis, Machado, Antonio]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Coming upon a spot

where the pinewood thickens,

the brother leading the way

spurs his dark mule, screaming,

—Goddamit, get going!

We’ve got miles and miles

before the night traps us.

The two sons of these fields

made of gorges and bitterness

remember an afternoon,

and quake in the mountain night.

In the densest part of the forest

again they hear the voices:

“The land of Alvargonzález

overflows with riches,

and he who worked the land

cannot sleep below the earth.”

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The road beyond Salduero

follows a thread of water.

On both banks of the river

the pine trees grow and soar,

and great rocks loom blurry

while the low valley narrows.

Strong pines of the forest

with gigantic spreading tops

and tribes of naked roots

are clinging to the boulders.

Some of their trunks are silver,

their needles turning blue:

the young ones. The old ones

covered with leprous toadstools,

moss and gray lichen

gnaw their heavy bark.

The valley erased below them

and nothing on either side,

luan the elder, says, “Brother,

if Bias Antonio’s cattle

are grazing on Urbión,

we have a long road to go.”

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