Tuesday, February 15, 2011

unpetalled






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I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
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But everything around
--horizons of lands and of seas--
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance,
enormous and alive.


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~ Juan Ramon Jimenez
translated by Stephen Mitchell

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