Octavio Paz Moment Poems

  • 1.
    Between going and staying
    the day wavers,
    in love with its own transparency.
    The circular afternoon is now a bay
    ...
  • 2.
    I am a man: little do I last
    and the night is enormous.
    But I look up:
    the stars write.
    ...
  • 3.
    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 3 Moment Poems by Octavio Paz

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