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Poetry

“I am like a solitary star”

By Pancho Nácar
Translated from Zapoteco by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco.

I am like a solitary star
shining in the sky,
and I do not need another
to glitter.

 

English

Note: This poem was originally written in Zapoteco.

I am like a solitary star
shining in the sky,
and I do not need another
to glitter.

 

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