birdwings
by rumi
your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror
up to where you’re bravely working.
expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here’s the joyful face you’ve been wanting to see.
your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
if it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
your deepest presence is in every small contracting
and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings.
*translated by coleman barks
rápidas manos frías/ retiran una a una/las vendas de la sombra/abro los ojos/ todavía/ estoy vivo/en el centro/ de una herida todavía fresca ~*madrugada* por octavio paz
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