Were it Not for Land and Beaches

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FABIO MORÁBITO

-for Jaime Moreno Villareal

If not for lands and beaches
there wouldn't be any waves,
no undertow, no sea spray;

the sea wouldn't get anywhere,
would not fulfill its missions,
would not encircle islands,

would not go from sea to sea
(Where would it go to and why?);
it wouldn't stick out its tongue.

It would contemplate the moon
like a bored dog, and some days,
not always, might chase a cloud.

Translated from the Spanish by Kathleen Snodgrass

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