Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though I have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near.
your slightest look easily will unclose me
though I have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose
or if your wish be to close me, I and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing
(I do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
E.E.Cummings
Complete Poems 1904-1962
Traducción:
de alguna parte en la nunca estuve
tus ojos tienen ése silencio:
en tu gesto más leve hay cosas que me contienen,
y que no puedo tocar de tan cerca que me encuentro
y aunque me cierre como dedos
tu mirada fugaz me soltará sin esfuerzo,
siempre me abrirás pétalo por pétalo
como el misterio de la primavera abre su primera rosa
y si tu deseo fuera cerrarme
mi vida y yo nos cerraremos repentinamente
como cuando el corazón de esta flor imagina
la delicadeza de la nieve cayendo en todas partes;
nada que percibamos en este mundo
iguala la fuerza de tu fragilidad:
cuya textura me apremia con el color de sus países,
esparciendo muerte y eternidad en cada latido
(no sé que hay en vos que se cierra y se abre;
sólo una parte de mí acepta
que la voz de tus ojos es más profunda que las rosas)
nadie, ni siquera la lluvia, tiene las manos tan pequeñas
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