Concert in the Garden
It rained,
The hour is an enormous eye.
Inside it, we come and go like reflections,
The river of music
enters my blood.
If I say body, it answers wind.
If I say earth, it answers where?
The world, a double blossom, opens:
sadness at having come,
joy of being here.
I walk lost in my own center.
by Octavio Paz
from The Collected Poems 1957-1987
Carcanet Press Limited, 1988