World Literature:
Fernando Rendon (Columbia)
Around Writing
Lightning writes with a luminous, sharp rigor.
A flash of lightning is a Morse code.
Rain writes on the surface of walls.
Wind, on the desert’s dunes.
The sun writes on faces.
The river on crags.
Fossils are etched onto the face of the ancient stone.
The snail prints a thread of light on the sand.
The woodpecker pecks a cuneiform jargon.
The people write history, albeit slowly.
Vanity writes with smoke and ashes.
Poets are just readers of the universe.
