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Between Going And Coming
Between going and staying
the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
where the world in stillness rocks.
All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can’t be touched.
Paper, book, pencil, glass,
rest in the shade of their names.
Time throbbing in my temples repeats the same unchanging syllable of blood.
The light turns the indifferent wall into a ghostly theater of reflections.
I find myself in the middle of an eye,
watching myself in its blank stare.
The moment scatters. Motionless,
I stay and go: I am a pause.
Octavio Paz was a Mexican writer whose influences included surrealism and Aztec mythology. See the 1991 interview in The Paris Review for more about his ideas and amazing life, or read his epic poem based around the Aztec Calendar Stone, Sun Stone.
This site is fantastic. At first I was kicking myself for not finding it sooner. How you find something sooner though is a mystery to me. Now I'm glad I didnt as I have many posts to scour. I love it. By the way, have you listened to broadcasts berberian soundtrack? Liquid gold dyed black. Love Mick.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Mick - really very much appreciated! And I'm just about to get my copy of the Berberian soundtrack - can't wait!
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