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Poetry

The Moon and the Feather

By Humberto Ak’abal
Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris

The moon
gave me a feather.

In my hand
it felt like singing.

The moon laughed
and told me
to learn to sing.

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English

The moon
gave me a feather.

In my hand
it felt like singing.

The moon laughed
and told me
to learn to sing.

For the next poem in this sequence, click here.

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