Often, in the Repose of Evening her soul took a lightness from
\nthe mountains across, although the day was harsh and
\ntomorrow foreign.<\/p>\n
But, when it darkened well and out came the priest\u2019s hand over
\nthe little garden of the dead, She<\/p>\n
Alone, Standing, with the few domestics of the night\u2014the blowing
\nrosemary and the murmur of smoke from the kilns\u2014
\nat sea\u2019s entry, wakeful<\/p>\n
Otherly beauty!<\/p>\n
Only the waves\u2019 words half-guessed or in a rustle, and others
\nresembling the dead\u2019s that startle in the cypress, strange
\nzodiacs that lit up her magnetic moon-turned head.
\nAnd one<\/p>\n
Unbelievable cleanliness allowed, to great depth in her, the real
\nlandscape to be seen,<\/p>\n
Where, near the river, the dark ones fought against the Angel,
\nexactly showing how she\u2019s born, Beauty<\/p>\n
Or what we otherwise call tear.<\/p>\n
And long as her thinking lasted, you could feel it overflow the
\nglowing sight bitterly in the eyes and the huge, like an
\nancient prostitute\u2019s, cheekbones<\/p>\n
Stretched to the extreme points of the Large Dog and of the Virgin.<\/p>\n
\u201cFar from the pestilential city I dreamed of her deserted place
\nwhere a tear may have no meaning and the only light be
\nfrom the flame that ravishes all that for me exists.<\/p>\n
\u201cShoulder-to-shoulder under what will be, sworn to extreme silence
\nand the co-ruling of the stars,<\/p>\n
\u201cAs if I didn\u2019t know yet, the illiterate, that there exactly, in extreme
\nsilence are the most repellent thuds<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that, since it became unbearable inside a man\u2019s chest, solitude
\ndispersed and seeded stars!\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n“Beauty and the Illiterate” from Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems.<\/em><\/strong>
\nTranslated by OLGA BROUMAS<\/em><\/p>\n