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Fernando Denis

The Invisible Creature in the Sunsets of William Turner

Don’t you see my face tangled in the threads of sunsets
Making the valleys and the mountains shake?
The way is the wheel of autumn stuck among walnuts,
And the day is a deep bellow,
Fire of wings watched by time and the prairie.
The sky already comes near with the first note of the strings,
Already the river is a golden bird among the rushes.
In the dream of Orion there are stars awakening,
And I see burning ships on the sea,
Castles of Carthage destroyed, broken stones on the grass,
Ancient trees under the glitter of my blue eyes. 

Turner knows what the lighting said before the light blocked up the
afternoon. 

My hands have rendered the colors of your two Poles,
The souls of hell have embellished this sunset
And have taken my music along the sands
As far as the mouths of the cliffs.
Draw near your body, clear as a fruit under the rain
And let your lips become golden, flaunt this sun
Illumining the wide eyes of autumn.
Kiss this eternity drinking with its lips
All the shores of the world.
Do not let the torches go out again,
Or the strangest of mirrors torn from the tides
Be darkened.
Search in its bottom a lighted-up deer,
A radiant pupil the color of birds
In the islands of Homer.
It is almost night in the bitter faces of the statues,
And under the mortal passions your name burns
And hovers over the sea like moss on a stone
And sprinkles the ashy heart of the first star.

La Criatura Invisible en los Crepúsculos de William Turner

La Criatura Invisible en los Crepúsculos de William Turner

¿No ves mi rostro enredado entre hilos de crepúsculos
Haciendo estremecer los valles y las montañas?
El camino es la rueda del otoño atascada entre las nueces,
Fuego de alas a orillas del tiempo.
Ya se acerca el cielo a la primera nota de las cuerdas,
Ya el río es un ave dorada entre los juncos.
En el sueño del mundo hay astros que se despiertan,
Y yo sobre el mar veo los buques incendiados,
Castillos y murallas en ruinas sobre la hierba
Donde antes estuvo el hombre
Antes de sentir el destello de mis ojos azules.

Turner sabe lo que dijo el relámpago antes que la luz cegara
la tarde.

Mis manos han rendido los colores de tus dos polos,
Las almas que en el mar se ahogaron embellecieron
Este crepúsculo
Y han llevado mi música por las arenas
Hasta las bocas de los acantilados.
Acerca tu cuerpo, claro como un fruto bajo la lluvia,
Y deja que tus labios se vuelvan de oro, ostenta este sol
Que hiere los párpados del otoño,
Besa esta eternidad que bebe con sus labios
Todas las orillas del mundo.
Haz que sobre el sueño no vuelvan a apagarse las antorchas.
Que el más extraño de los espejos arrancados a las mareas
No se apague,
Busca en su fondo un ciervo encendido, 
Una pupila radiante del color de los pájaros
En las islas de Homero.
Ya casi es de noche en los rostros amargos de las estatuas,
Y bajo las pasiones mortales tu nombre arde
Y se cierne sobre el mar como el musgo sobre la roca
Y salpica el ceniciento corazón de la primera estrella.
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The Invisible Creature in the Sunsets of William Turner

Don’t you see my face tangled in the threads of sunsets
Making the valleys and the mountains shake?
The way is the wheel of autumn stuck among walnuts,
And the day is a deep bellow,
Fire of wings watched by time and the prairie.
The sky already comes near with the first note of the strings,
Already the river is a golden bird among the rushes.
In the dream of Orion there are stars awakening,
And I see burning ships on the sea,
Castles of Carthage destroyed, broken stones on the grass,
Ancient trees under the glitter of my blue eyes. 

Turner knows what the lighting said before the light blocked up the
afternoon. 

My hands have rendered the colors of your two Poles,
The souls of hell have embellished this sunset
And have taken my music along the sands
As far as the mouths of the cliffs.
Draw near your body, clear as a fruit under the rain
And let your lips become golden, flaunt this sun
Illumining the wide eyes of autumn.
Kiss this eternity drinking with its lips
All the shores of the world.
Do not let the torches go out again,
Or the strangest of mirrors torn from the tides
Be darkened.
Search in its bottom a lighted-up deer,
A radiant pupil the color of birds
In the islands of Homer.
It is almost night in the bitter faces of the statues,
And under the mortal passions your name burns
And hovers over the sea like moss on a stone
And sprinkles the ashy heart of the first star.

The Invisible Creature in the Sunsets of William Turner

Don’t you see my face tangled in the threads of sunsets
Making the valleys and the mountains shake?
The way is the wheel of autumn stuck among walnuts,
And the day is a deep bellow,
Fire of wings watched by time and the prairie.
The sky already comes near with the first note of the strings,
Already the river is a golden bird among the rushes.
In the dream of Orion there are stars awakening,
And I see burning ships on the sea,
Castles of Carthage destroyed, broken stones on the grass,
Ancient trees under the glitter of my blue eyes. 

Turner knows what the lighting said before the light blocked up the
afternoon. 

My hands have rendered the colors of your two Poles,
The souls of hell have embellished this sunset
And have taken my music along the sands
As far as the mouths of the cliffs.
Draw near your body, clear as a fruit under the rain
And let your lips become golden, flaunt this sun
Illumining the wide eyes of autumn.
Kiss this eternity drinking with its lips
All the shores of the world.
Do not let the torches go out again,
Or the strangest of mirrors torn from the tides
Be darkened.
Search in its bottom a lighted-up deer,
A radiant pupil the color of birds
In the islands of Homer.
It is almost night in the bitter faces of the statues,
And under the mortal passions your name burns
And hovers over the sea like moss on a stone
And sprinkles the ashy heart of the first star.
Sponsors
Gemeente Rotterdam
Nederlands Letterenfonds
Stichting Van Beuningen Peterich-fonds
Prins Bernhard cultuurfonds
Lira fonds
Versopolis
J.E. Jurriaanse
Gefinancierd door de Europese Unie
Elise Mathilde Fonds
Stichting Verzameling van Wijngaarden-Boot
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VDM
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