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English version by
Ivan Granger

Original Language
Spanish

Siesta

Themes

Fire

Heart

Silence

Water

Wine

Recommended Books

	Antonio Machado: Selected Poems, by Antonio Machado / Translated by Alan S. Trueblood
	Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, by Antonio Machado / Translated by Willis Barnstone
	The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, by Stephen Mitchell
	Six Masters of the Spanish Sonnet: Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz, Antonio Machado, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel, Translated by Willis Barnstone
	Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, Translated by Robert Bly

In Memory of Abel Martin

     While the fish of fire traces its curve,
near the cypress beneath the supreme blue,
and the blind child flies in the white stone,
and in the elm the ivory couplet
of the green cicada beats and returns,
let's honor the Lord
-- the black stamp of his good hand --
who has dictated the silence in the clamor.

     To the god of the distance and the absence,
of the anchor in the sea, the open sea...
He frees us from the world -- omnipresence --
opening for us a path to walk on.

     With the hidden cup well-filled,
with this ever-filling heart,
let's honor the Lord who has made the Void
and has sculpted in faith our reason.

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