GESTO PARA UN OBJETO

En tiempo dormido, un tiempo como un guante sobre un tambor.

Los tres que en mí contienden nos hemos quedado en el móvil punto fijo y no somos un es ni un estoy.

Antiguamente mis ojos buscaron refugio en las cosas humilladas, desamparadas, pero en amistad con mis ojos he visto, he visto y no aprobé.”

—Alejandra Pizarnik, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962–1972 (ebook edition)

GESTURE FOR AN OBJECT

In sleeping time, a time like a glove on a drum.

The three of us who contend in me have remained at a fixed moving point and we are neither an is nor an am.

Formerly my eyes sought refuge in humiliated, helpless things, but in friendship with my eyes I have seen, I have seen and did not approve.

Translated, from the Spanish, by the Avvakum Press