Translation:Sacred Defoliation

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Sacred Defoliation (1918)
by César Vallejo, translated from Spanish by Wikisource

From the collection The Black Heralds (Los heraldos negros)

1816854Sacred Defoliation1918César Vallejo

Moon! Crown of an immense head
that goes on defoliating in golden shades!
Red crown of a Jesus who thinks
tragically sweet of emeralds.

Moon! Wild celestial heart,
why do you float thus, within a cup
full of blue wine, westward,
as a broken and wounded stern?

Moon! And by flying in vain,
you immolate in dispersed opals.
You are perhaps my gypsy heart
that wanders crying verses in the blue.


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