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englishnerdery-Octavio Paz

Posted by Kerri Anne in english nerdery on Apr 21st, 2007 | no responses

More transparent
Than this water dropping
Through the vine’s twined fingers
My thought stretches a bridge
from yourself to yourself
Look at you
Truer than the body you inhabit
Fixed at the center of my mind

You were born to live on an island

-Octavio Paz, from Madrigal

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So I’ve built a wooden heart, inside this iron ship, to sail these blood red seas and find your coasts. Don’t let these waves wash away your hopes, no. This war-ship is sinking, and I still believe in anchors. Pulling fist-fulls of rotten wood from my heart, oh I still believe in saviors. Because we are all made out of shipwrecks, every single board washed and bound like crooked teeth on these rocky shores, so come on and let’s wash each other, with tears of joy and tears of grief and fold our lives like crashing waves and run up on this beach.

-Listener, from Wooden Heart