My voice speaks out
to your lips,
to your face:
give me thirteen times twenty days,
thirteen times twenty nights,
to bid farewell
to the face of my mountains,
the face of my valleys,
where once I roamed
to the four world-ends,
the four world-quarters,
seeking and finding
to feed me
and live.
translated into Spanish by Prologo de Francisco Monterde, then into English by John Bierhorst
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Very evocative but what is the significance of 13 times 20 days?
Don’t know but it works for me whatever it is.
Very good comment. It worked for me but I thought I may have missed something.
I actually just went back to the book I took that from “In the Trail of the Wind” edited by John Bierhorst and this comes from a Quiche play where the prisoner is asking for the time of a religious year: 13 times 20 days equals 260 days which is their religious year.
There you go. Thanks for that.
Liked it Leonard. Well done. ☺☺
Glad to hear that, Patricia.