Airborn/Hijos Del Aire Quotes

“Days that haunt the poem’s single day
are like the air revisiting this house
of vocables that you and I designed:
its windows watch an ocean and a sky

to learn what portion of the other’s mind
the jet-trails presage: letters are stones that fly
to settle in a wall of which the line
traces an hour, a where, a place of thought.

What is more palpable, the thing we saw
or the images its recollection brought
into the mind to ask us what we are?

from “Day”
― Octavio Paz, Airborn/Hijos Del Aire