You let down your hair, and the history falls across your shoulders, your back, your breast. Again, I am a young lover having to persuade you that his embraces are the sweetest, that his desire is the strongest. You have not reached forty yet, but you already consider cutting them off, to show the
The heat was passing innocent from one room to another It was an illusory peace made by the absence of people The direct grandson of the rooster who sang three times Was feeling better without the weeping Peter And it was sunny he covered his face with The cat’s eyelid. The girl’ shoes entered like
My fjord was broken from another fjord In the rain that smoothes all curves And islands collide with each other. Here buses move straight forward Cutting the rubberized night with their blue headlights But up there you can get seasick only thinking Of so much dark. My fjord was broken from another fjord He is
Shouldering the yoke of light, farming the land with beads of perspiration ploughing from the periphery of the earth to the mountains of the west dropping the moon as sentinel of the fields reaping the crop of the new year what can we pay to your unselfish being but a mere sincere gratitude. The world
I love the hands that turn the barren land into a golden yield those immortal hands that sow the seeds and celebrate life those that shoulder the yoke like cross those with angel folds that plough the land those that raise the voice of protest with a unified voice, bearing the
The soul as a Black shadow looks out to your departure, eerie bat at the twilight of a love. Slow the evening darkens your smile. In the dark your eyes blur. Aware insult without dawn the long night. English Translation by Claudia Piccinno
I blindfolded so that the light does not pierce my eyes. I pursed my lips because I have only silences. I buried the heart so as not to hear the beats. Without me, let the night come. English translation by Claudia Piccinno
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The funnel through which she passed was unusually spacious, hazy green, purple at times. The body was not a burden. There was no weight. Only consciousness merged and separated with stardust. It was one, for one and only time. Or maybe for the umpteenth time, because everything was so familiar, the belonging did not
When the sea was fed up with sadness The sea shed all its tears All the bones were thrown ashore it made pebbles from the bones and put the waves away from the shore When the sea was fed up with sadness It threw up all the ships from the bottom black ships without
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Sometimes a human heals through the threat of the macrocosm hours melt away as hastily as salt I am going to those places, to fiery lands I do not know I am following behind with the trace of frozen blood on my forehead heavy are the fingernails I dug into my heart ‘that’s just how
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