Dot Over The I - Ulalume Gonzales de Leon

[Larry Robinson]

Dot Over The I

What's in the glint of a hummingbird?
In the shorthand of the sweetheart rose?
A meager now.
A precious here.
The dot God put in the i

But I am in the wind;
always somewhere else,
scattering God.
Not now.
Not here.

Punta Sobre La I

Que resume el colibri?
Que abrevia la rosa de pitimini?
Un escaso ahora.
Un precioso aqui.
Dios hecho punto
sobre l i.

Pero estoy de viento
siempre en otra parte
a Dios diluyendo.
Ni ahora.
Ni aqui.

- Ulalume Gonzales de Leon
 (translation by Terry Ehret, John Johnson and Nancy Morales)
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