Cezar BALTAG
The Gate of Paradox
Fire or water?
Like a flowing book
like a door of water
like a thirsty sea
like a liquid fire hook
like some milk of red-hot coal
like a pyre sobbing in the mirror
like an earthquake of water
like a molten clock
fire fire
water water
hour stone
tinder hell
locum refrigerii a spot of verdure
whence all the woe and sigh
have faded away
''You cannot swim
twice
in the same
earthquake...!''
Now and for evermore flame
and throughout the eternal
flow of flowing.
Full stop.
in Unicorn in the mirror, 1975
English version by Gabriela PACHIA
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