Today’s poet is Peruvian born César Vallejo.

XII
From Trilce

Pienso en tu sexo.
Simplificado el corazon. pienso en tu sexo,
ante el hijar maduro del dia.
Palpo el boton del dicha, esta en sazon.
Y muere un sentimiento antiguo
degenerado en seso.

Pienso en tu sexo, surco mas prolifico
y armonioso que el vientre de la Sombra,
aunque la Muerte concibe y pare
de Dios mismo.
Oh Conciencia,
pienso si, en el bruto libre
que goza donde quiere, donde puede.

Oh escandalo de miel de los crepusculos.
Oh estruendo mudo.

Odumodneutse!

English translation after the jump

I think about your sex.
My heart simplified, I think about your sex,
before the ripe daughterloin of day.
I touch the bud of joy, it is in season.
and an ancient sentiment dies,
degenerated into brains.

I think about your sex, furrow more prolific
and harmonious than the belly of the Shadow,
though Death conceives and bears
from God himself.
Oh Conscience,
I am thinking, yes, about the free beast
who takes pleasure where he wants, where he can.

Oh scandal of the honey of twilights.
Oh mute thunder.

Rednuhtetum!