Delmira Agustini [Uruguay]
1886-1914
Another Race
Eros, let me lead you, Blind Father...
And at your almighty hands I ask
for his prodigal body arrayed in fire
covering mine, pale among petals of damask!
Today the electric corolla I unfurl
offers the attar of a garden of Wives;
for his vultures in my flesh, their fee,
I give up a whole cote of pint doves.
Give my feverish stem to the twinned cruel serpent
of his embrace...Absinthe and honey spent
in me for his utter veins and from his mouth...
I am one ardent furrow stretched
where the seed of another race will flourish
feeding madness and beauty both!
—Translated from the Spanish by Karl Kirchwey
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