Pablo Neruda: “I Like It When You’re Still” (from Veinte Poemas de Amor)
I Like It When You’re Still (from Veinte Poemas de Amor) I like it when you’re still: it’s as though you aren’t there and my voice can only reach you […]
I Like It When You’re Still (from Veinte Poemas de Amor) I like it when you’re still: it’s as though you aren’t there and my voice can only reach you […]
May This World Endure I I straighten a broken branch Its leaves are heavy With water and shade Like the sky, before The break of day. O Earth! Discordant signs […]
Latitude I only want to be lying on your body like a lizard in the sun in these days of sadness. The broken cry dissolves in the air, this base […]
Angel At dawn, when the harshness of the day still is strange, I meet you again at the exact horizon from which the night recedes. I know your dark transparency, […]
In the Country of Allegories In the country of allegories Salome is always dancing for crowned King Herod, forever more, and the head of John the Baptist, before whom lions […]
Thanatos “Halfway down the road of living …” So said Dante, in a verse implying that we are also halfway down the road of dying. And so you must learn to […]
Flood We are waiting for the rain to stop, though we have grown accustomed to standing behind a curtain, to being invisible. Spoons have turned into sieves, no one dares […]
Against My Will They hired me at the factory of ideas against my will but I wouldn’t clock in In the same way, they drafted me in the army of […]
Blood Orange The zipper slid down to your waist and the happy storm of your lustful body submerged in shadows suddenly burst And your dress falling to the polished floor […]
Broken Mirror The little man who sang incessantly the little man who danced in my head the little man from my days of youth broke his shoelace and the carnival […]