Octavio Paz Light Poems

  • 1.
    There's a motionless tree
    And another one coming forward
    A river of trees
    Hits my chest
    ...
  • 2.
    Between going and staying
    the day wavers,
    in love with its own transparency.
    The circular afternoon is now a bay
    ...
  • 3.
    More than air
    More than water
    More than lips
    Light light
    ...
  • 4.
    Listen to me as one listens to the rain,
    not attentive, not distracted,
    light footsteps, thin drizzle,
    water that is air, air that is time,
    ...
Total 4 Light Poems by Octavio Paz

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