文章基本信息

标题：Tulum.
作者：Cluny, Claude Michel
期刊名称：World Literature Today
印刷版ISSN：0196-3570
出版年度：2005
期号：May
语种：English
出版社：University of Oklahoma

摘要：

 Tulum   The undertow reclaims that emptiness  at the lip of an old stone basin  of turquoise water ...  Hemmed in by the sea,  invincible in their rocky vessels  the Maya have broken their masks,  forced to drink from  fleeting, ephemeral mists,  and a haze of thirst covers  the sea--salt, light, spume.  Tulum   Le ressac ressasse le rien  au bord d'une vieille vasque  de rocs et d'eau turquoise  Arretes par la mer  infranchissable a leurs vaisseaux de pierre,  les Mayas ont brise leurs masques  accules a boire aux nuages  de plus en plus rares,  et la brume de la soif s'etend  sur la mer--sel, lumiere, ecume.

Tulum.

Cluny, Claude Michel

Tulum

 The undertow reclaims that emptiness
 at the lip of an old stone basin
 of turquoise water ...
 Hemmed in by the sea,
 invincible in their rocky vessels
 the Maya have broken their masks,
 forced to drink from
 fleeting, ephemeral mists,
 and a haze of thirst covers
 the sea--salt, light, spume.

Tulum

 Le ressac ressasse le rien
 au bord d'une vieille vasque
 de rocs et d'eau turquoise
 Arretes par la mer
 infranchissable a leurs vaisseaux de pierre,
 les Mayas ont brise leurs masques
 accules a boire aux nuages
 de plus en plus rares,
 et la brume de la soif s'etend
 sur la mer--sel, lumiere, ecume.

* Tulum, Uxmal, and Chichen Itza--all Mayan cities located in the Yucatan Peninsula--are famous for their architectural ruins from the Late and Post Classic periods (700-1200 A.D.). Tikal, another ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala, thrived from 800 B.C. to 900 A.D. [DS]

Sources: "Colorado" (1989), from Oeuvre poetique, vol. 1 (La Difference, 1991), 60. Copyright [c] 1991 by Editions de la Difference. Extracts from "La Memoire du sel," Autre Sud 26 (Sept. 2004), 22-23. Copyright [c] 2004 by Claude Michel Cluny, Autre Sud, and Editions Autre Temps.