Apaciguando el sol con la sombra de mi mano

Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848 – 1933) 

Silver Vase

How long can I be a wall, keeping the wind off?

How long can I be

Gentling the sun with the shade of my hand,

Intercepting the blue bolts of a cold moon?

Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “3 Women,”