Possible Elegy
Alone I sailed.
Where will I arrive?
If the hot air balloon were lost,
on what land would it fall?
If the ship were to wreck,
it would sink in what waters?
Alone I started.
No one knows why.
But, I, yes I, know!
(Text of the poem in the original Spanish)
José María Hinojosa
translated from the Spanish by Mark Statman
About the poet
Black Tulips: The Selected Poems of José María Hinojosa
UNO Press






