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Symphony in Gray Major
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Symphony in Gray Major The sea like a vast mirrored crystal reflects the zinc sheet of the sky; far away, flocks of birds stain the burnished edge pale gray. The round sun, an opaque pane of glass passes with a limp toward its zenith; the sea wind resting in the shade holds a black bugle for a pillow. The waves that move their leaden bellies under the pier, they seem to howl. Sitting on a cable, smoking his pipe, is an old sailor, thinking of the beaches of a vague, distant, foggy country. He is old, this wolf. His face has been toasted by the Brazilian sun’s rays; the forceful typhoons of China he has seen while drinking from his flask of gin. The foam pregnant with salt and iodine has known in its time his red nose, his curled chess pieces, his athlete’s biceps, his canvas cap, his drill sweater. In the midst of the tobacco smoke the old man goes to the distant, foggy country, to a hot, golden afternoon where the brigand quickly departs from the watch. The tropical siesta. The wolf sleeps. All now enveloped in the gamut of gray. It seems that the boundaries are erased by the smooth, enormous curve of the horizon. The tropical siesta. The old cicada practices her snoring, senile guitar, and the cricket preludes a lone monotone on the only string of his violin. Rubén Darío. • • • Rubén Darío (1867-1916), the Nicaraguan poet who served as the chief figure in the Modernismo movement in Latin America, published his first major collection of poety, Azul… in 1888. The volume met with mixed, even virulent reviews from notable figures such as Miguel de Unamuno and Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo. Luckily the book ended up in the hands of the Spanish critic Juan Valera, whose praise cemented the book’s importance. Sinfonía en Gris Mayor appeared in 1891. |
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