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Last sun in Villa Ortúzar

Evening like a Last Judgment.
The street is an open wound in the sky.
Was it an Angel or a sundown that bright burning far?
Insistent, like a nightmare, distance weighs upon me.
A wire fence torments the horizon.
The world is something useless thrown away.
The sky has day, but night is treacherous in ditches.
All the light is in these blue walls and that girls' uproar.
Is it a tree or a god, sticking out the rusty gate?
Many lands at once: fields, sky, suburbs.
Today was rich in streets, sharp sundown and evening made
stupor.
Far off, I return to my poverty.