You turn into a plant on the coasts of time.
With a chalice of round sky
and tunnel for traffic,
you are the largest ceiba tree on earth.
The painter’s eye climbs up
through your scissor-stairs to blue.
Over a flock of roofs you stretch your neck
like a llama of Peru.
Robed in folds of wind,
with an ornamental comb of constellations,
you loom over
the circus of the horizon.
Mast of an adventure upon time!
Pride of five hundred and thirty cubits.
Pole of the tent raised by men
in a corner of history.
With gaseous lights your sketch in the night
reproduces the Milky Way.
First letter of a cosmic Alphabet,
pointing towards sky,
hope standing on stilts,
a glorified skeleton.
Iron that brands a flock of clouds,
mute sentinel of an Industrial Age.
The tides of heaven
silently undermine your column.
(Jorge Carerra Andrade)
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