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CESAR VALLEJO (Peru: 1892- Paris- 1938)
Translations by Michael Smith and Valentino Gianuzzi
INTENSITY AND HEIGHT
I want to write, but forth comes froth
I want to say so much but I get stuck;
there's no spoken cipher that's not a sum
there's no written pyramid without a core.
I want to write - but I feel like a puma,
I want to be laurel- but am onion-wreathed.
There's no spoken cough that's not just fog,
no god or son of god bereft of growth.
Let's go, therefore, to eat grass,
meat of laments, fruit of moaning,
our melancholy soul in a tin can.
Let's go, let's go! I'm wounded;
let's go drink what's just been drunk,
let's go, crow, and fecundate your crow-hen.