sky tremor
From Fascicle, read “sky tremor” (1931), one of Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro’s master works:
The lamp that keeps vigil is like a jellyfish with injured eyes. And they do not understand.
In the open window the skeleton extends its fingers to attract birds irretrievably lost because of their migratory urges or magnetic forests. And they do not understand.
These birds die, choked by their own musical instrument, an instrument whose rhythmic sound causes our vertebrae to grow and the sap to rise to the top of the brain to feed the illuminations at the correct pressure. And they do not understand.
