Translation:The Black Heralds (1918)/Sacred Defoliation

The Black Heralds (1918)
by César Vallejo, translated from Spanish by Wikisource
Sacred Defoliation
César Vallejo1816854The Black Heralds — Sacred Defoliation1918Wikisource

Sacred Defoliation

Moon! Crown of an immense head
that goes on defoliating in golden shades!
Red crown of a Jesus who thinks
tragically sweet of emeralds.

Moon! Wild celestial heart,
why do you float thus, within a cup
full of blue wine, westward,
as a broken and wounded stern?

Moon! And by flying in vain,
you immolate in dispersed opals:
you are perhaps my gypsy heart
that wanders crying verses in the blue!. . . .