Otro epígrafe
The Country of Marriage
VI
What I am learning to give you is my death
to set you free of me, and me from myself
into the dark and the new light. Like the water
of a deep stream, love is always too much. We
did not make it. Though we drink till we burst
we cannot have it all, or want it all.
In its abundance it survives our thirst.
In the evening we come down to the shore
to drink our fill, and sleep, while it
flows through the regions of the dark.
It does not hold us, except we keep returning
to its rich waters thirsty. We enter,
willing to die, into the commonwealth of its joy.
Wendell Berry; el poema entero. Epígrafe para El libro de la tribu, de Carlos Gardini, novela de vampiros de ciencia ficción sobre los desaparecidos y los vuelos de la muerte que empieza con una escena de intimidad literaria extrema.
