Homage to Memory

we were…
a happy trooper in a childhood spent in the countryside
a soldier awaiting in silence the last attack
a fighter pilot in defense of english skies
a spy hidden in the darkened movie house
a lone explorer defeated by desert sands
a daring sailor at the boundless tips of capes
all this we were…
and too, the blind poet smiling
before the smallness
of the writing
that we are…

-- Esteban Moore
Translation by Dave Oliphant