From the blue and black bodies by Jaime Sabines

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FROM THE BLUE AND BLACK BODIES
that walk at time through my soul
come voices and signs that someone interprets.
It's dark as the sun
this desire. Mysterious and grave
as an ant dragging away the wing of a butterfly
or as the yes we  say when things ask us  -- do you want to live? 

Collected Poems (1961) by Jaime Sabines