[New-Poetry] love poems continued

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Set Her Far From Me, Mirror



Set her far from me, mirror.
Reverse her size.
She who fills the world,
make her little, make her almost nothing.
Let her fit into monosyllables
and any eyes at all.
So that you can hold
her enormity,
a gazelle, tame,
like a child, in your frame.
Take from her that rejoicing
in fire and fullness,
until the finest scales
can’t even feel her.
Leave her cold, flat,
buried in your quicksilver.
Turn
her eyes away.
Don’t let her see me, let her
think she’s alone. So that I
can learn at last what she’s like
when she’s alone.
Give me something of her
that she herself never gave me.


Even so, even
in the revelation of her,
even so you take her from me.


--Pedro Salinas
Translated by W.S. Merwin


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