Wasp on Water
by Coral Bracho
The water surface holds, tense,
for a wasp;
this path is a delta, always moving,
like time, that touch
on the deep quietness
in a brief moment.
Brief, this floating-
time; brief
its spinning journey
in ever-coiling labyrinths,
seething uncertainties, flames,
and transparent
complexity.
The literal translation of this poem was made by Tom Boll
The final translated version of the poem is by Katherine Pierpoint
Notes
From La voluntad del ámbar (1998).
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