Fibrous little fog!
Foggy centipede
Scenting
fertility dancing
We must take care of her flames!
Take care of her smoothness!
How beautiful!
How bountiful!
She said and awoke
Thus she brought all this
back in view
Thus she raised it
shining in its crisscross
Sacred little fire!
Offering of grain
Vicuña, Cecilia. “Unravelling Words & the Weaving of Water”. Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 1992. p. 111. Translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine.