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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Mario Benedetti: Sea Bottle


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Playa en la costa del Río de la Plata. Riachuelo, Uruguay: photo by Diego Landru, September 2010


.....The sea is chance

..... .-- Vicente Huidobro


I cast these six lines in this bottle into the sea

in the secret hope it someday sails

as far as a nearly deserted stretch of sand

where a child comes across it and opens it

and extracts not lines but consolations and little stones

and warnings to take care and snails




Playa en la costa del Río de la Plata. Riachuelo, Uruguay: photo by Diego Landru, September 2010


Botella al mar


......El mar es un azar

......-- Vicente Huidobro


Pongo estos seis versos en mi botella al mar

con el secreto designio de que algún día

llegue a una playa casi desierta

y un niño la encuentre y la destape

y en lugar de versos extraiga piedritas

y socorros y alertas y caracoles.




Playa en la costa del Río de la Plata. Riachuelo, Uruguay: photo by Diego Landru, September 2010


Photography by Diego Landro, 12 September 2010, across the Río de la Plata, on the outskirts of Colonia de Sacramento, Uruguay

Botella al mar (Bottle in the Sea): Mario Benedetti (1920-2009), translated by TC

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