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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
con el secreto designio de que algún día
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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