Skip to content

Log Out

×

Poetry

Do you remember the seraphim in that Romanesque fresco we were looking at in the room of the Master of Pedret? They looked straight at us, hands outstretched, as if they refused to die under the effects of depigmentation that was erasing them from the kingdom of light. They’re symbols of love—Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna—peeling and leaping with the passage of time. You’ve emptied my life of angels and left me with the painful clairvoyance of memory: all their eyes scattered on my wings, eyes that don’t want to sleep, eyes that think of you, and know you, and don’t know you.

 

Translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin

Image depends on its subscribers and supporters. Join the conversation and make a contribution today.

+ Click here to make a donation.

+ Click here to subscribe to Image.


The Image archive is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Related Poetry

Broken Cup

By

Margaret Gibson

Old Woman Reading Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs

By

Alicia Ostriker

Apologia

By

Jill Alexander Essbaum

Jay

By

Christine Gosnay

Receive ImageUpdate, our free weekly newsletter featuring the best from Image and the world of arts & faith

* indicates required