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O feathers destined
Not to tree
meadow
or combat,
or to the atrocious ground
or sweatshop,
but to the conquest
of a transparent fruit!
I celebrate the sky dance
of gulls and petrels
attired in snow
I participate
in their velocity and repose,
in the pause and haste of snow.
What flies in me is manifest
in the errent equation of those wings
O wind aside the black candor's
iron flight in the mist!
Whistling wind that transposed
the hero's murderous scimitar:
you receive the harsh flight's blow
like a coat of armor plate,
repeat its menance in the sky
until it all becomes blue again.
The flight of dart,
every swallow's mission,
flight of the nightingale and its sonata,
the cuckatoo and its showy crest.
Hummingbirds flying in a looking glass
stir sparkling emeralds,
and flying through the dew
the partridge shakes
the mint's green soul.
I, who learned to fly with every flight
of pure professors
in the woods,
at sea,
in the ravines,
on my back in the sand,
or in dreams,
remained here, tied
to the roots,
to the magnetic mother, the earth,
lying to myself
and flying
only within,
alone in the dark
A plant dies and is buried again,
man's feet return to the terrain,
only wings evade death.
The world is a crystal sphere,
if he does not fly man loses his way--
cannot understand transparency.
That is why I profess
unconfined clarity
and from the birds I learned
passionate hope,
the certainty and truth of flight.