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Collage: What Living Water Shall Unveil Our Doors of Contact
by Paul LastovicaThe boys are smoking marijuana
on top of the pyramid
tall and yellow and ruminating
on the taste of earth;
an ivory phantom covers the plain
where herds of men drag shadows
build temples on the sea
to this living hour
this momentary truth
gnawed at by light
rotten columns of
towering green pine stretch
the conscience mirror to liquid
turning hymns to speech
ending as a splatter of stagnant water
11/03/2015 Author's Note: Source: Hymn Among the Ruins
Author: Octavio Paz
Trans: William Carlos Williams
page 95 - 99
Early Poems 1935 - 1955
Posted on 11/04/2015
Copyright © 2024 Paul Lastovica
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