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Translated from the Spanish by Alan Britt
Published: Fri Oct 15 1976
Chitra Ganesh, To Assemble a Flying Car (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist & Durham Press.
The Washerwomen

Translated from the Spanish by Alan Britt_
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The river’s washerwomen
hold their breasts of water
like babies enclosed
in round water jugs

and the water’s echoes
bear the curves
of their waists

it carries a moon’s jasmines
and spring’s threads

sitting
on the canoes
they was day after day
two withered leaves
on their vacant faces
undermine the horizon

and the water’s reflections
paint their naked bodies
with dark leaves and the sun’s silk

and in their hands
they hold roads
of water scales
surrounded by foam.

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Nico Suarez is a young Bolivian born poet. (updated 1976)

Alan Britt is a poet whose recent books include Vegetable Love (March Street Press, 2009) and Vermillion (Bitter Oleander Press, 2006). (updated 6/2010)

 

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