2025. március 13., csütörtök

Mario Benedetti: Shelter

When I was
just a wide-eyed boy
I lived for years
out in colón
in little more than
a corrugated 
shack

those days
were on
the grim side

but never again
did I feel as sheltered
as safe from harm
as when I'd drift off
to sleep
under my rag blanket
to the song of
the mighty rain
on the tin
roof

-- translated by Louise B. Popkin

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