13 de marzo de 2006

Ad hoc para esta noche


Ahi les va un poema. Es sobre la pintura the starry night de Vincent Van Gogh.

That does not keep me from having a terrible need of -- shall I say the word -- religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars.--
Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother

The Starry Night
The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.
It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:
into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life
with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.

Anne Sexton

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