Circular Poems


     

                                     I



The specter known for its tempests like a fevered
     horse
Arbitrarily contributes its swiftness in the eyes
     of twilight
We are hemmed in by remorse
The attack of remorse with the voice of night and dying
     wolves
Alerts us somnambulant struck down your sophistry arriving
     too late
Cultivator of metamorphosis in dark rooms
Like restraining the messenger fire of the multitude
And gathering together forgotten acts on the road
A woman can submit her clandestine adventures
Angered by the invasion of clouds in her life
Beautiful as the favorites of history
The warning of the inevitable guillotine
Nothing will change in her projects
On the contrary death makes a medal for her
     disconsolate head
And the visit of the great beyond
Awards her in advance a balanced step
While she moves away without undoing the knots
     of her past





                                  II



Strike down the wolves in mist who visit;
The creeping metamorphosis of the fiery crowd
 The sophistry of the storm blocked in by stars
The lashed in remorse by turns a memory
That diminishes day by day its swiftness

The clandestine specter is alert in its path
Arbitrarily disconsolate
Somnambulant horse filled with twilight
Like the warnings of history
Fevered messenger of the future submitted to a room

The great favorite gathers the inevitable medals
Invasion of spiteful adventures
Refrain the incontinent attack of the secluded woman
And her step balanced by means of a moribund emptiness



Vicente Huidobro