object:1.jlb - Afterglow
book class:Borges - Poems
author class:Jorge Luis Borges
subject class:Poetry
class:chapter
ULTIMO RESPLANDOR
Siempre es conmovedor el ocaso
por charro o indigente que sea,
pero ms conmovedor todava
es aquel brillo desesperado y final
que herrumbra la llanura
cuando en el horizonte nada recuerda
la vanagloria del poniente.
Nos duele sostener esa luz tirante y distinta,
que es una alucinacin que impone al espacio
el unnime miedo de la sombra
y que cesa de golpe
cuando notamos su falsa,
como se desbarata un sueo
cuando el soador advierte que duerme.
AFTERGLOW
Sunset is always disturbing
whether theatrical or muted,
but still more disturbing
is that last desperate glow
that turns the plain to rust
when on the horizon nothing is left
of the pomp and clamor of the setting sun.
How hard holding on to that light, so tautly drawn
and different,
that hallucination which the human fear of the dark
imposes on space
and which ceases at once
the moment we realize its falsity,
the way a dream is broken
the moment the sleeper knows he is dreaming.
[Norman Thomas di Giovanni]
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