Roshanak Rodanco

Ya no será ya no no viviremos juntos no criaré a tu hijo no coseré tu ropa no te tendré de noche no te besaré al irme nunca sabrás quién fui por qué me amaron otros. No llegaré a saber por qué ni cómo nunca ni si era de verdad lo que dijiste que era ni quién fuiste ni qué fui para ti ni cómo hubiera sido vivir juntos querernos esperarnos estar. Ya no soy más que yo para siempre y tú ya no serás para mí más que tú. Ya no estás en un día futuro no sabré dónde vives con quién ni si te acuerdas. No me abrazarás nunca como esa noche nunca. No volverá a tocarte. No te veré morir.

He loved her and she loved him. His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she sucked She wanted him complete inside her Safe and sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should not drag her from that moment He wanted all future to cease He wanted to topple with his arms round her Off that moment's brink and into nothing Or everlasting or whatever there was Her embrace was an immense press To print him into her bones His smiles were the garrets of a fairy palace Where the real world would never come Her smiles were spider bites So he would lie still till she felt hungry His words were occupying armies Her laughs were an assassin's attempts His looks were bullets daggers of revenge His glances were ghosts in the corner with horrible secrets His whispers were whi...

The first sorrow of autumn Is the slow goodbye Of the garden who stands so long in the evening- A brown poppy head, The stalk of a lily, And still cannot go. The second sorrow Is the empty feet Of a pheasant who hangs from a hook with his brothers. The woodland of gold Is folded in feathers With its head in a bag. And the third sorrow Is the slow goodbye Of the sun who has gathered the birds and who gathers The minutes of evening, The golden and holy Ground of the picture. The fourth sorrow Is the pond gone black Ruined and sunken the city of water- The beetle's palace, The catacombs Of the dragonfly. And the fifth sorrow Is the slow goodbye Of the woodland that quietly breaks up its camp. One day it's gone. It has only left litter- Firewood, tentpoles. And the sixth sorrow Is the fox's sorrow The joy of the huntsman, the joy of the hounds, The hooves that pound Till earth closes her ear To the fox's prayer. And the seventh sorrow Is the slow goodbye Of the face with i...

Todo lo que de vos quisiera es tan poco en el fondo porque en el fondo es todo, como un perro que pasa, una colina, esas cosas de nada, cotidianas, espiga y cabellera y dos terrones, el olor de tu cuerpo, lo que decís de cualquier cosa, conmigo o contra mía, todo eso es tan poco, yo lo quiero de vos porque te quiero. Que mires más allá de mí, que me ames con violenta prescindencia del mañana, que el grito de tu entrega se estrelle en la cara de un jefe de oficina, y que el placer que juntos inventamos sea otro signo de la libertad.