Analogía / José Antonio Ramos Sucre

Analogy

The solitary one laments a distant absence. He consoles himself by writing the difficult sonnet, where analysis often discovers a new sense.
     The solitary one gets lost in the distinctions of his scholarly doctrine and satisfies the requirements of the art when the sunset paints the myrtle and the cypress black and marks their profiles.
     The image of the absent one, with a countenance excavated by meditation and dressed in the nuances of fire, travels around the grove of squirrels and gazelles where the memory of Queen Guinevere endures.
     The solitary one is enchanted in the transfiguration of the absent one and describes her merits, referring to the heraldic motive of the iris with steel leaves.




El cielo de esmalte (1929)




{ José Antonio Ramos Sucre, Obra completa, Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1989 }