Faint Taste of Salt
Posted: March 31, 2014 Filed under: Prose, Writing | Tags: Argentina, breast, Cortázar, extract, from the observatory, Julio Cortazar, latin american literature, love, salt, siesta, sleep Leave a commentAn extract from From the Observatory by Julio Cortazar:
…amor de siesta o duermevela, entreviendo en esa mancha clara la puerta que se abre a la terraza, en una ráfaga verde la blusa que te quitaste para darme la leve sal que tiembla en tus senos.
English translation:
…holding you in my arms, siesta love or half asleep, glimpsing in that patch of light through the door that opens onto the terrace, in a green gust the blouse you took off to give me the faint taste of salt trembling on your breasts
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