NERUDA’S  DEAD FLOWER
(“Neruda’s Dead Flower” sample)
O corres con ciertos abogados de mirada terrible
largamente desnuda, a la orilla del agua de la noche?
“Do you race, mother-naked, with those sinister lawyers
through the watery night of the beaches?’”
Pablo Neruda / trans. Ben Belitt
Inside a dusty book on a shelf
I find a badly translated quote
about lawyers, along with a dead flower
I preserved twenty years ago
in the mountains of my youth.
There’s not much there,
stems and papery tissue,
perhaps a threat of …