To listen to the audio recording of Kilku Warak’a reading his poetry at the Institute of Peruvian-North American Culture in Cusco, 1958 (archived at the US Library of Congress), click here.
C’anpiq tutaq p’anpaykusqantaq
yana lliklla hina mast’arikunki
khutu wayrawan aytiykukuspa;
t’uqyaq qhaqyataq lliplliyninwan
q’inqupallayta awarin
k’upacasqa unuykipi
1Kilku Warak’a’s idiosyncratic use of the consonant “c” in place of the customary “ch” in his Quechua orthography is noteworthy here. In this case, “qucha” becomes “quca” with this substitution.