C O R A L B R A C H O
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from ESE ESPACIO, ESE JARDIN
translated by Forrest Gander
VI.
The white fox switches back below another plateau;
her footfall lighting up the mountain. Laughter:
a yellow that sings. Suns fused
to the blue.
An arroyo flanked by flames,
a swarm of light the murmur of poplars;
a whisper of sand,
of seeds.
The fox looks up, conceals herself; goes to snow.
Each sun seating itself in its whiteness leaves behind a silent sea,
each shining coin,
each leaf exact and rounded, a threshold,
a shrouding silence.
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