Sacred Unleaving

Oh moon, you crown of an enormous head
thinning in shadowy goldenness!
You crimson crown of a Jesus who thinks
of emeralds with a tragic sweetness.

Oh moon, you crazy heart of the sky,
why row on like this, in the blue wine
of the goblet, and ever westward,
with such a vanquished, aching stern?

Oh moon, by flying away in vain like this,
you obliviate into a spatter of opals;
perhaps you are my gypsy heart, which wails
its verses while wandering out in the blue.

Poet: César Vallejo
Source: @Poets.Org
Books: @AbeBooks
Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert

Oh moon, you crazy heart of the sky, why row on like this, in the blue wine?

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