The Daily Fire
As the air …………….. constructs and destroys invisible buildings on the pages of geology, on the planetary mesas: ………………………………… man. His language is barely a seed, yet it burns ………………. in the palm of space. Syllables are incandescent, and they are plants: ……………………………. their roots fracture silence, ……………………… their branches build houses of sound. ……………………,…………. Syllables: they twine and untwine, ………………………………….. play at likeness and unlikeness.
Syllables: ……………. they ripen in the mind, flower in the mouth. …………………………… Their roots drink night, eat light. ……………………………. Languages: trees incandescent with leaves of rain.
Lightning vegetation, geometries of echoes: on a sheet of paper the poem builds itself …………………………….. as the day on the palm of space.
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The Daily Fire
As the air …………….. constructs and destroys invisible buildings on the pages of geology, on the planetary mesas: ………………………………… man. His language is barely a seed, yet it burns ………………. in the palm of space. Syllables are incandescent, and they are plants: ……………………………. their roots fracture silence, ……………………… their branches build houses of sound. ……………………,…………. Syllables: they twine and untwine, ………………………………….. play at likeness and unlikeness.
Syllables: ……………. they ripen in the mind, flower in the mouth. …………………………… Their roots drink night, eat light. ……………………………. Languages: trees incandescent with leaves of rain.
Lightning vegetation, geometries of echoes: on a sheet of paper the poem builds itself …………………………….. as the day on the palm of space.
by Octavio Paz from The Collected Poems 1957-1987 Carcanet, 1987
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