Octavio Paz - AL PINTOR SWAMINATHAN lyrics

With a rag and a knife Against the idée fixe The bull of fear Against the canvas and the void The uprushing spring Blue flame of cobalt Burnt amber Greens fresh from the sea Minds' indigo With a rag and a knife No brushes With the insomnia the rage the sun Against the blank face of the world The uprushing spring Serpentine undulation The aquatic vibration of space The triangle the arcanum The drop of ink of blood of honey With a rag and a knife The uprushing spring Springs the Mexican red Turns black The Indian red springs The arrow stuck on the black altar The angry alphabet Turns black The lips go black The black of Kali Charcoal for your eyelids Woman desired every night The black of Kali The yellow and its scorched beast The ochre and its underground drums The green body of the black jungle The blue body of Kali The s** of Guadalupe With a rag and a knife Against the triangle The eye bursts Fountain of signs The serpentine undulation moves Wave upon wave of imminent apparitions The canvas a body Dressed in its own naked enigma