'Lights a window in Amherst'

“It’s New England time,

the sun

comes like an old puritan

and it rises over the ocean

and gives leave to the flight of the birds,

it lights a window in Amherst

where the eyes of a woman contemplate the world….’’

— From “The Balada of New England,’’ by Fernando Valverde (born 1980), translated from the Spanish by Carolyn Forche. The “woman’’ referred to is Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), the famed poet.