Ecopoesia

Wik’uña

Cecilia Vicuña

Wik’uña being
is grazing and running

White breast
at nightfall

Sprout on a peak
exploding

Wilderness in one body

Eyes overflowing
its little head


Wooly flower
slipping by

I sleep
in your domain

Lose my head
go back to find it

Wik’uñanessence
of wik’uñaty

Thought
as perfect light

Filament

Piercing crystal

Fiber of prayer

Geometry
unexpected

; suddenly there


You who eats
& scrapes

You who are
escapes

Restorer
of meanings

Strength
between us

Animal
rising
from our love

Our Lady of the Andes
leap

You’re my
tomato
my chili pepper
hot potato

My whoops
clunk

You’re the Cupisnique

Uru
and Bamba

What are you doing

The Apu here
gold on the mountain
and the Rimac there

What are you doing

Wik’uña on the mountain
three snorts
three sharps she’s off

Wild and frugal

Effervescent
fountain of wool

Rug in the sun

Mother and daughter
of better times

You’re off
and your legs
are thunder

You wanted
demanded it suffered

Why am I you?

Be Wik’uña and graze

Take your rug
north and south

Hey skinny
for what?

Pepper pot

Why have you come?

 

 

 

Vicuña, Cecilia. "Wik’uña." Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. Trans. Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine. Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992. pp. 81-87.




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