En el desierto
vi una criatura, desnuda, bestial,
en cuclillas, que
tenía su corazón en la mano,
y se lo comía.
Le dije: “¿Está rico, amigo?”
“Es amargo—amargo,” me contestó;
“Pero me gusta
porque es amargo,
y porque es mi corazón.”
Stephen Crane (Newark, Nueva Jersey, 1871-Badenweiler, Friburgo, 1900)
Versión de Inés Garland
In the desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;
“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”
Twentieth-Century American Poetry, 2004. Poetry Fundation
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