8
A mushroom in the sauce
impresses like a tree:
not through violence, through perseverance.
13
Red watermelon humor:
meaty appearance,
watery vanity.
14
Bolder, the pear:
the heart is dead,
the shell sings on.
17
Illustrious tyranny of the peach:
no proliferating soviet seeds;
at heart, just a stony monarch.
20
Uses of the lentil:
its double convex zeal
focuses earth’s joy.
21
The ant is the grape of its kingdom:
it models solidarity
clustering in clans, black bunches.
39
Laughter in the water:
so many strawberries
are already a memory.
From “Moras en el día,” in La voz inútil (Buenos Aires: Bajo la Luna, 2003). Copyright Guillermo Saavedra. Translation copyright 2008 by Michele McKay Aynesworth. All rights reserved.