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“Impious Woman” by César Vallejo 🇵🇪 (16 Mar 189215 Apr 1938)
Translated from the Spanish by Clayton Eshleman
Lord! You were behind the window
human and sad as dusk approached;
and how that woman was bewailing
your funeral!
Her eyes were Holy Thursday,
two black grains of embittered light!
With stony drops of blood and tears
she nailed your cross!
Impious woman! Since you departed,
Lord, she has never returned to the Jordan,
in red waters she exposes her flesh,
and to the vile Jew she sells bread!