Miguel
BY CÉSAR VALLEJO
TRANSLATED BY DON PATERSON
I’m sitting here on the old patio
beside your absence. It is a black well.
We’d be playing, now. . .
“Faryab- village dug well” by Didiervberghe – Own work. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons –
A beautiful poem… you can listen to the awesome Mercedes Sosa sing it in Spanish here:
Alice-Catherine 