viernes, 21 de septiembre de 2012

Love song

How can I keep my soul in me, so that
it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise
it high enough, past you, to other things?
I would like to shelter it, among remote
lost objects, in some dark and silent place
that doesn't resonate when your depths resound.
Yet everything that touches us, me and you,
takes us together like a violin's bow,
which draws *one* voice out of two separate strings.
Upon what instrument are we two spanned?
And what musician holds us in his hand?
Oh sweetest song. 





viernes, 24 de agosto de 2012

Praise Life

This country least, but every inhabited country
Is clotted with human anguish.
Remember that at your feasts.

And this is no new thing but from time out of mind,
No transient thing, but exactly
Conterminous with human life.

Praise life, it deserves praise, but the praise of life
That forgets the pain is a pebble
Rattled in a dry gourd.



sábado, 18 de agosto de 2012

Ningún otro daño


Días en blanco y horas
sin paz. La sombra y sus campanas.

¿Dónde está el álbum de fotografías?
¿Qué se hizo de  mis libros?

Sueña otra  vez. Te ocultas e imaginas
que nadie va a saber tu paradero.

Al despertar dirás: melancolía
no hay ningún otro daño que pueda comparársete

Elegías a Julia Gay - José A. Goytisolo