From 'The Slowness of Oxen.' (excerpt) (poem)(The Literature of Democratic Spain: 1975-1922) From: The Literary Review | Date: March 22, 1993| Author: Higgins, Laura; Lee, Cecilia C.; Llamazares, Julio | COPYRIGHT 1993 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Our calm is sweet and blue and tortured in this hour.

All is as slow as an ox's passing on the snow. An as soft as the holly's red berries.

Our abandon is great like existence, deep like the taste of crushed fruits. Our abandon does not end with weariness.

Slowness is not a fault, nor do the hollows of knowledge dwell in our soul.

In some distant thicket nests a bird of oil that is born with the day. I feel its garnet thirst sometimes. I...

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