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SEAWALL

I'm going to make a seawall
with my small happiness...
I don't want the sea to know
that pains go through my breast.

I don't want the sea to touch
the shore of my earth...
I have run out of dreams,
crazy from shadows in the sand.

I don't want the sea to look
at blue mourning in my path...
(My eyelids were auroras
when the storm crossed!)

I don't want the sea to cry
a new rainstorm at my door...
All the eyes of the wind
already cry me as dead.

I'm going to make a seawall
with my small happiness,
light happiness of knowing myself,
mind the hand that closes.

I don't want the sea to arrive
at the thirst of my poem,
blind in the middle of light,
broken in the middle of an absence.

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Julia de Burgos
Translated by Jack Agüeros


«El mar y tú» (1954)
Velas sobre el pecho del mar


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The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos, compiled and translated by Jack Agüeros, Curbstone Press, Willimantic, 1997, ISBN 1-880684-24-1