Poems for Saint Valentine

I WANT TO BE EVERYTHING IN LOVE

I want to be everything in love
the lover
the beloved
dizziness
the breeze
the reflecting water
and that white cloud
vaporous
indecisive
that covers us for an instant.

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BORDERS

I was the cloud
and the rain
and the sea
and I want to be the noon
and the wall
and you.

CLARIBEL ALEGRÍA, Nicaragua (1924 – 2018)
Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley H. Barkan