Some more Roque Dalton for us to enjoy. I have shared his work in a previous post with a small biography from Wikipedia. His poetry was very important for Latin American writing and for revolutionary cultural producers from all over the world. His time was cut short by an assassination by his ex-comrades and El Salvador and the world lost an important thinker and creative visionary.

We Will Walk

We will walk
To the plowed fields
And we will bury
Hopefully
all the guns
So that a root of dust explodes
In butterflies
Their mineral stems speak
Of a future, noble spring,
Replete with doves.

Roque Dalton (Trans. Kaushalya Bannerji)