Venice masks

Tuesday 17 December 2013

Friendship - Octavio Paz

It is the awaited hour
over the table falls
interminably
the lamp’s spread hair
Night turns the window to immensity
There is no one here
presence without name surrounds me

Octavio Paz (1914 - 1998) Mexico
Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature

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