Nostalgia for the Present

Nostalgia for the Present

by Jorge Luis Borges

 

At that very moment, the man said to himself:

 

I would give anything for the joy

of being by your side in Iceland,

beneath its great motionless sky,

sharing this moment

as one shares music

or the taste of fruit.

 

At that very moment,

the man was by her side in Iceland.

 

--

Bahía de las Águilas, in the remote southwest of the Dominican Republic.

Done