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Poetry

What Are Those Things

Translated from Spanish

— What are those things
that shine in the sky,
— I asked my mother.

— Bees, she answered

Every night since then,
my eyes eat honey.

For the next poem in this sequence, click here.

The two preceding poems in this sequence were originally published in La Palabra Florida,Year 2, No. 4, p. 23, Mexico, Winter l997.
 

English

— What are those things
that shine in the sky,
— I asked my mother.

— Bees, she answered

Every night since then,
my eyes eat honey.

For the next poem in this sequence, click here.

The two preceding poems in this sequence were originally published in La Palabra Florida,Year 2, No. 4, p. 23, Mexico, Winter l997.