Pictured above, Pine, Lake Tenaya, Yosemite National Park, a photograph made in 1937 by Edward Weston (1886-1958)
Rotation
by Octavio Paz (born 31 March, 1914; died 19 April, 1998)
Tall column of pulsebeats
on the unmoving axis of time
the sun dresses and undresses you
The day shakes loose from your body
and is lost in your night
The night shakes loose from your day
and is lost in your body
You are never the same
you have always just arrived
you have been here since the beginning
(translated from the Spanish by Eliot Weinberger)
