Homero Aridji, "This Black Stone"

'Mortar Palette' by Emmanuela Copal de Le´n

Mortar Palette, Emmanuela Copal de León, 2000.

This Black Stone
Homero Aridji

This black stone

Is a piece of night

That time has made palpable

So that a man

Can take up darkness in his hand

Translated from the Spanish by Gregory McNamee.

Text © 1996, 2000 by Homer Aridjis
"This Black Stone" first appeared in Many Mountains Moving, Volume III, Number 1. The work appears here by permission of the author.

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