Chronos Poem by Nicanor Parra
Chronos
In Santiago, Chile
The days are interminably long:
Several eternities in a day.
Like the vendors of seaweed
Travelling on the backs of mules:
You yawn - you yawn again.
Yet the weeks are short
The months go racing by
And the years have wings.
Long back 42years back I read his poems still it is fresh as garden tomato
Original Spanish text: ________________ CRONOS En Santiago de Chile Los días son interminablemente largos: Varias eternidades en un día. Nos desplazamos a lomo de luma Como los vendedores de cochayuyo: Se bosteza. Se vuelve a bostezar. Sin embargo las semanas son cortas Los meses pasan a toda carrera Ylosañosparecequevolaran.
Ì`m chilean and, reading this I get the feeling that Parra's work hasn't been showned to reforce the value it does have. I suggest a revision of his work and the translation of some of his wooks, or at least one, 'Poemas y Antopoemas', as a whole so the searcher gets a notion of his stetic, value and ruptures wuithin the time of the publications. He is our Ezra Pound.
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8/9/2026 6:12:10 AM # rel_20260806T081513Z_580e7f4
There is much too much time.