Flame

Flame. Forsake poison.

A snake’s skin that coils

about my tongue.

Outside

lies but a forsaken land.

                                                           Trans. by Jèssica Pujol

UNTITLED

Perhaps a sore won’t graze your body

nor your house blow up in your hands.

When fear moans in your ear

close your hand and throw your cry to the wasteland

But now, shush, I want to tell you a secret:

it is only the noisome night that speaks.

I want only to hear real words.

But shush, don’t say anything.

Now is the time,

the milked pomegranate brims over,

and the breast, in a thousand morsels,

brings the soul down.

Trans. by Jèssica Pujol