LOGOS POETRY

Title: FABIO HERRERA: FIGURE 1986

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FABIO HERRERA: FIGURE 1986 Carlos Barbarito trans. Brian Cole °***° from "THREE POEMS ON THREE DRAWINGS BY THE SAME ARTIST" Leave the dream to come into the day, certain pure brightness at the end of a passage, before the eye, dust in the air, the air scarcely moving, the window and, further off, pools, branches ... Somewhere, far off, dark and secret sacrifices: small beasts thrown into the flames, children abandoned in the rain. The water now reflects an ancient echo, wets the hand, the lips; brings back each body from its shadow, each shadow from its edge, they spoil the taste of fruit, mist over the window-panes, scatter what had been collected. ...