Elvira Dones - Sworn Virgin

Suddenly It’s Evening

Everyone is alone at the heart of the earth

pierced by a ray of sunlight:

and suddenly it’s evening.

(Translation by Charles Guenther, in The Sea and the Honeycomb , Beacon Press, 1971)

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