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Summer Garden. Read by Rosario de la Pascua Molina

Summer Garden (2012). Louise Glück, Nobel Prize Winner 2020

Read by Mª Rosario de la Pascua Molina

 

How quiet the garden is;

no breeze ruffles the Cornelian cherry.

Summer has come.

 

How quiet it is

now that life has triumphed. The rough

 

pillars of the sycamores

support the immobile

shelves of the foliage,

 

the lawn beneath

lush, iridescent—

 

And in the middle of the sky,

the immodest god.

 

Things are, he says. They are, they do not

change; response does not change.

 

How hushed it is, the stage

as well as the audience; it seems

breathing is an intrusion.

 

He must be very close,

the grass is shadowless.

 

How quiet it is, how silent,

like an afternoon in Pompeii.