Unas Cosas Pequeñitas
Apr. 5th, 2011 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metonomiaPrimus! I have something like 14 DW invite codes chillin' over here with me, and they would loooove to find homes, so if you are fleeing internet warfare, or just want a DW backup journal, let me know, because otherwise I'm just going to throw them all up on dw_sharing soon.
Tam, carminis diēī habeō:
(I am intrigued that English spellcheck wants the final word to be 'have.' I applaud your translation skillz, internet, but really, I want the Latin)
"The Discovery"
do not imagine that the exploration
ends, that she has yielded all her mystery
or that the map you hold
cancels further discovery
I tell you her uncovering takes years,
takes centuries, and when you find her naked
look again,
admit there is something else you cannot name,
a veil, a coating just above the flesh
which you cannot remove by your mere wish
when you see the land naked, look again
(burn your maps, that is not what I mean),
I mean the moment when it seems most plain
is the moment when you must begin again
-- Gwendolyn MacEwen
Tam, carminis diēī habeō:
(I am intrigued that English spellcheck wants the final word to be 'have.' I applaud your translation skillz, internet, but really, I want the Latin)
"The Discovery"
do not imagine that the exploration
ends, that she has yielded all her mystery
or that the map you hold
cancels further discovery
I tell you her uncovering takes years,
takes centuries, and when you find her naked
look again,
admit there is something else you cannot name,
a veil, a coating just above the flesh
which you cannot remove by your mere wish
when you see the land naked, look again
(burn your maps, that is not what I mean),
I mean the moment when it seems most plain
is the moment when you must begin again
-- Gwendolyn MacEwen
