Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent.

100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (ed. University of Texas Press, 1986) - ISBN: 9780292760288