The Cosmos coheres all right
            Even if my notes do not cohere.
                    Ezra Pound

The epigraph that introduces this paper singles out two terms and establishes their relationship. The terms: cosmos and notes; the relationship: dissimilarity. Pound's notes, unlike the cosmos, do not cohere. I would like to borrow this formula and apply it to the study of the poetry of Dámaso Alonso, but with the following twist: the relationship will remain intact, but the terms will exchange attributes. In Alonso's view of things, it is the cosmos that suffers from incoherence; the cosmological model he adopts is the "exploding universe" of Georges Lemaître, perpetually expanding, perpetually falling apart. His poems, on the other hand, make perfectly coherent use of this hypothesis, incorporating it as one more element in a unified poetic whole. In particular, the two-part poem "Sueño de las dos ciervas" offers a...