Sunday, September 5, 2021

The Time In Between

IT DID NOT WANT TO BE

It did not recognise the meeting
of the he and she.
The blossom so enamoured
could not become flowery.

It stopped its senses,
refused discovery,
descended diaphanous
before light’s clarity.

It saw tomorrow’s cloudiness,
stayed, in yesterday’s history.

It did not want to be.

Miguel Hernández
English translation by Anthony S. Kline

Jean-Michel Folon, Love and Hope, 2000. Courtesy of Invaluable, LLC.

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