sexta-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2023

Meditações - toward the close of December

Slowly, without sun, the day sinks

toward the close of December.

It is minus sixty degrees.

 

Over the sleeping houses a dense

fog rises - smoke from banked fires,

and the snowy breath of an abyss

through which the cold town

is perceptibly falling.

 

As if Death were a voice made visible,

with the power of illumination...

 

Now, in the white shadow

of those streets, ghostly newsboys

make their rounds, delivering

to the homes of those

who have died of the frost

word of the resurrection of Silence.

 

John Haines

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