Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Like a Rose

I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
But everything around
-horizons of lands and of seas-,
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.

***Juan Ramón Jiménez, translated by Stephen Mitchell from the book " Risking Everything"

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