Son David got me wondering the other day whether Spanish may be more a language of passion and English more a language of the intellect. He's working on his own blog piece prompted by his recent trip to Chile during a visit to a cemetery: he noticed the word recuerdo on gravestones utilized where we would use "memory," root of the former being "heart" and the latter being "mind."
That made me recall Marjorie Agosin's poem I heard her read at the Dodge Poetry Festival in 1998. Please click on pages to enlarge:
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