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ALWAYS HERACLITUS

The wind slips by and in passing contradicts itself
like time it weathers yet shapes the earth

We are the stone in the middle of the torrent
Always the same and different every second

polished by the insatiable waters of change

autógrafo

José Emilio Pacheco
Translated by George McWhirter


«Selected Poems»

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