Mas Paz

Brotherhood
Homage to Claudius Ptolemy

I am a man: little do I last
and the night is enormous.
But I look up:
the stars write.
Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone spells me out.

-Octavio Paz, A Tree Within, translated by Eliot Weinberger

May 28, 2002 09:14 AM