Miguelángel  Meza
Translated from the Guaraní by Elisa Taber
In the valley.


Dream pattering soles,
vessel, full moon.
Stream...
nectar that oozes from fatiguing somnolence.
Voice of the sleeper,
the bones of the poor creak below.
Night
falls
slowly.
Moon, milk mother, blankets the ground there.
Piercing whistle erupts goosebumps.
Moaning nightmares surface.
Chopombe
paces
out back.

Palm wall
sifts moon's wild honey.
The poor sleep
where the sierras cave in,
the poor sleep.
Under the pindó, a dog
and the poor person sleep.



Mboriahu

Yvyty rypy' ũme.


Pyambu,
kambuchi, ñasaindy.
Ysyry...
topehýi kane'õ rykueyjúi syrypopo.
Ñe'ãmbu,
mboriahu ryñehẽ kangue kuágui ayvu.
Mbegueve
oguejy
pyhare.
¡Amo yvývo oñuã kamby sy!
¡Oikytĩ pirĩ tuñe'ẽ!
Heñói kerasy.
Chopombe
oguata
okupére.

Mbokaja retekue
ombogua eirete.
Oke mboriahu.
Yvyty kua ruguáre ag̃aĩ,
oke mboriahu.
Jaguami pindo guýpe avei
ha oke mboriahu.
from the book DREAM PATTERING SOLES / Ugly Duckling Presse
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