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THE WAYS TO SEE AND BE AN ANGEL

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An angel went by, says an angel,
without seeing its own shadow in the moment,
unperceiving of the longing
its words leave behind in us:
people of fl esh and bone,
drunk on love and death,
watching it from the other side of the window

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Homero Aridjis
Translated by George McWhirter


«Tiempo de ángeles» (1994)

español Original version

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