"No one could remember them afterward: the wind forgot them, the language of water was buried, the keys were lost or f…"

"To the lands without name or numbers, the wind blew down from other domains, the rain brought celestial threads, and …"

"It was the twilight of the iguana."

"I put my brow amid the deep waves, descended like a drop amid the sulphurous peace, and, like a blind man, returned t…"

"How many times in the wintry streetsof a city or in a bus or a boat at dusk, or in the deepest loneliness, a night or…"

"Mighty death invited me many times: it was like the invisible salt in the waves, and what its invisible taste dissemi…"

"Through the hazy splendor, through the stone night, let me plunge my hand, and let the aged heart of the forsaken bea…"

"Rise up to be born with me, my brother."

"Give me silence, water, hope. Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes. Cling to my body like magnets. Hasten to my veins an…"

"In Cholula the youths wear their finest cloth, gold, and plumes. Aorned for the festival, they question the invader.D…"