WELCOME MORNING
Esta colección es la celebración de un poema: Welcome Morning, de Anne Sexton. Hace un agradecimiento precioso de lo pequeño y del detalle diario, coge las cosas de casa y hace lista, las escribe en versos y les da un peso de joya a cada una.
Hemos cogido los cereales, una de estas pequeñas cosas de la mañana, y los hemos hecho de plata y oro, para parecernos un poco a sus palabras y dar valor a las menudencias haciéndolas de metales nobles, tal como ella las hace versos.
Welcome Morning
Anne Sexton
There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry “hello there, Anne”
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my silver, plate, cup upon
each morning.
All this is God,
right here in my pea-green house
each morning
and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks,
to faint down by the kitchen table
in a prayer of rejoicing
as the holy birds at the kitchen window
peck into their marriage of seeds.
So while I think of it,
let me paint a thank-you on my palm
for this God, this laughter of the morning,
lest it go unspoken.
The Joy that isn’t shared, I’ve heard,
dies young.
