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Poem LVII

 

I am like the traveler
who arrives at a port where no one waits for him;
I am the shy traveler who walks
among other people's embraces and smiles
which are not for him...
Like the lone traveler
who turns up the collar of his overcoat
in the chill of the great wharf...

 

(Spanish: Viajero - audio only) from the book Versos (1950). Permission to provide this deep link, courtesy of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes of the Universidad de Alicante in Alicante, Spain.

Translation by Judith Kerman. First published in Dulce María Loynaz: A Woman in Her Garden (Selected Poems), White Pine Press, 2002.

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