Wedding

Joan-Ramon
Resina

Translated from the Spanish by Jonathan Canel

Finally gathered, the flame and the butterfly,
after so much presaging,
reality enriches dreaming
and the night burns, breaking into cries.
Do you hurl your body into my soul?
Or was it I who hurled his past
into the blessed sphere of your calm?
What does it matter? Tonight explodes
and the future opens its pallid rose.
This light, which we already are, will gild
the life around us like a ripe sun.