full moon: Reading the Sonnets by Moonlight

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Leyendo los sonetos a la luz de la luna


Probando para medida
los versos del hijo del guantero,
guantes de cabritilla o seda
para acariciar la luna
o guantes de piel de jabalí
para coger un cometa en vuelo,
la luna fría e indiferente al toque
se eleva para consolar o mofarse
de esas extravagancias del corazón
que llamamos amor.




---------------------------© Rafael Jesús González 2012

Reading the Sonnets by Moonlight


Trying for fit
the verses of the glover's son,
gloves of kid or silk
to caress the moon
or boar skin gloves
to catch a comet in its flight,
the moon, cold & indifferent to touch,
rises to comfort or to mock
those vagaries of the heart
that we call love.


--------------------------------© Rafael Jesús González 2012


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