Poesia kaiera
Hitzarmena
Zurekin hitzarmen bat egitera nator, Walt Whitman—
Luzaroan gaitzetsi zaitut eta aski da!
Ume handi bat bezala natorkizu
Aita kaskagogorra izan zuena;
Adiskidetzeko bezain zaharra naizela uste dut.
Zeu izan zinen baso berrian egurretan sartutako lehena.
Orain enborrak lantzeko tenorea heldu da.
Izerdi bat daukagu biok, sustrai bat—
Egin dezagun tratu bat elkarrekin.
A Pact
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman — / I have detested you long enough. / I come to you as a grown child / Who has had a pig-headed father; / I am old enough now to make friends. / It was you that broke the new wood, / Now is a time for carving. / We have one sap and one root — / Let there be commerce between us.