Earlie Body

The rainbow courses through my father and my mother
While they sleep. They are not naked
Not covered by pajamas no sheet whatsoever
They are more like a cloud
In the shape of a woman and man intertwined
Perhaps the first man and the first woman
Upon the earth. The rainbow surprises me
Seeing lizards run between the interstices
Of their bones and my bones     seeing
A sky-blue cotton grow between their brows
Now they can't see me     can't embrace     can't move
The rainbow takes them again
Like it takes my thinking
My youth and my eyeglasses

--Jorge Eduardo Eielson
Translated from the Spanish by Shook