Daily Poem: Men in the City ~ Alfonsina Storni
A simple poem, yet breathtaking in its imagery.
Men in the City
~ Alfonsina Storni
Translated from Spanish by Rachel Benson
The woods of the horizon
are on fire;
eluding flames,
the swift blue bucks
of twilight
cross.
Little golden goats
migrate toward
the vault
and recline
on the blue moss.
Below,
the city
rises up,
a cement rose,
motionless on its stem
of dark cellars.
Its black pistils—
towers, cupolas—
emerge,
waiting for lunar pollen.
Suffocated
by the flames of the fire
and lost
among the petals of the rose
almost invisible,
crossing back and forth
the men . . . .
