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Wall
Simple and extraordinary wall.Wall without weight and without color:
a hint of air in the air.
From a hillside, birds pass,
light passes like a swing,
the edge of winter passes
like a breath of summer.
A leafy wind
and embodied shadows pass.
But a sigh does not break bounds,
arms do not meet,
and no heart-to-heart is made flesh.
Translated from the Spanish by Maria Giachetti
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"Wall," translated by Maria Giachetti, from Gabriela Mistral: A Reader by Gabriela Mistral. English translation copyright © 1993 by Maria Giachetti. Reprinted with the permission of White Pine Press.
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