Poetry at Sangam

SangamHouse

 










PARTY IN A TANGIERS GARDEN by Manuel Ulacia

(Translated from the Spanish by Indran Amirthanayagam.)

to Shirley Chernitsky

At midnight,
when the firmament
was filled with stars,
and comets
one after another
were falling over the sea,
you entered the secret garden
to find within it another sky:
one hundred tortoises
were carrying lit candles
on their shells;
walking they formed
unforeseen constellations,
flickering and luminous rhymes,
another writing,
created by chance.