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Breeze, u asked for poems--here is one
Saleema
08/29/00 at 13:42:49
Horse by Moonlight
for Juan Soriano


A horse escaped from the circus
and lodged in my daugheter's eyes:
there he ran circles around the iris
raising silver dust-clouds in the pupil
and halting sometimes
to drink from the holy water of the retina

Since then my daughter feels a longing
for meadows of grass and green hills...
waiting for the moon to come
and dry with its silk sleeves
the sad water that wets her cheeks.

_____By Alberto Blanco
Translated by Jennifer Clement


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