Our poet translator Timothy Adès, on Day 490 of the daily new poems, brings us a Spring piece by Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959).
Spring
by Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)
translated from Spanish by Timothy Adès
Cul-de-sac breezes
mesh at street-corners.
Spring.
Still on my eyelash,
fleck of a seed-grain.
Spring.
Wall-hopper climbing,
lizard retreating.
Spring.
Cat, all day, stalking
countless small creatures.
Spring.
Round your eyes, darling,
(yours too, dears!): tremors!
Spring.
Alfonso Reyes
trans. Timothy Adès
from: Alfonso Reyes, Miracle of Mexico (Shearsman Books 2019)