Translation:Halflight

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Halflight (1918)
by César Vallejo, translated from Spanish by Wikisource

From the collection The Black Heralds (Los heraldos negros)

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I've dreamed an escape. And I've dreamed
your lace scattered in the bedroom.
Along a pier, some mother;
and her fifteen years breastfeeding to one hour.

I've dreamed an escape. A “forever”
sighed on the ladder of a prow;
I've dreamed a mother;
some fresh little growths of greenery,
and the starry trousseau of an aurora.

Along a pier......
And along a neck being strangled!


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