Rain-mare

a mighty red mare rears up
her black hooves touch the moon
her open nostrils blast the night air
her warm womb quakes
her wild white eyes turn

the rain wheel in the sky

rain-mare, from Horse, by Próspero Saíz 

مادیان تنومند سرخ می رمد

تا که سمهای سیه رنگش به  لمس ماه رسد

    هوای شبانه در سوراخهای بینیش منفجرمیشود

رٍحم داغش بلرزه میآید
و دیدگان سپید وحشیش می چرخد

چرخ  باران در آسمان         

Próspero Saíz  was born and raised in Navajo County in Northern Arizona. He holds a B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Iowa. He teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ghost Poney Press has published three books of his poetry: The bird of nothing & other poems (1993); Horse (1996); Chants of nezahualcoyotl & obsidian glyph (1996). A few of his poems have been translated into French, Portuguese, and Finnish.