Un Rayo Detenido de la Luna

Little boat like a bottle
Floating over the ocean,
Every day only one wave.

That anything gets across
Everything getting across,
So many radiations

Criss-crossing all directions,
Is amazing from this view
Of it all from one bottle.

It’s amazing anything
Lasts long enough to wash up
On some other island’s shore.

What a thing for translators
To quarrel over, whether
The poet ever said old.