Luna menguante. Se alza ahora. Un crujido, se marcha. Profunda
sobre exhaustos continentes. Me asombro dice mi
plenitud. Nadie nadie dice la habitación en la que
yazgo muy quieta en la
oscuridad observando. Tu corazón dice la luna, se mengua y se alza más. Dónde está. Tu
cautela, tus ojos tu dedo índice en
gatillo tu espina dorsal tu raciocinio—preferible
rechazar el contacto,
mantener la distancia, que mane de ti la sangre y las estrellas blancas te corroan, y el espino
que es tan blanco allí en el prado,
y la arena como sábana por las extensas playas, soldados que se aprestan, la rápida
mirada al cielo cuando las palabras clave, de plegaria, antes
de la captura, son pro-
feridas, escalofrío que no contiene odio pero no es amor, es neutral, sí, ex-
angüe, por ejemplo un brote cerca de donde
una mano descierra un
cerrojo de seguridad te llama
a voces, es un ejemplo del nadie-allí, y el sonido del agua se oscurece, y el viento
agita las hierbas, y sin
un grito fluye el frío como ojos de un perro
guardián, el guardián que fija su atención en la diferencia—solo la diferencia—y actos
cometiéndose en tu nombre, tus presos que llegan
a tu centro de detención, allí, en tus
ojos, la prisión, en la profundidad de tu pupila, el ablandamiento, tú entregando toda tu aten-
ción, tus ojos, tu celda, tu cautela, tu control,
después de todo es tuyo, sí, lo que has atrapado, aférralo, aferra
esto, aquí no hay ley, no estás expuesto a
enjuiciamiento, mira todo lo que quieras, se retorcerá para ti, ahí, en esta luz que se alza,
protegido de las consecuencias, haciendo de ti un
fantasma, sin un grito, sin un grito la
fantasma, sin un grito, sin un grito la
tarde se convierte en noche, las palabras parecían serlo todo y así
el equipo jurídico los declarará exentos,
exenciones para el drenaje de los lagos, para el asesinato de los mares, los esclavos en sus
aguas, no son de nuestra especie, exención que se llama
adelante, mezcla la sangre, toma de la carne, haz caja, prende fuego, postula el ecuador, oculta
el origen, di que estáis todos perdonados, di que son sólo
técnicas coercitivas de interrogación y contrarresistencia, como en dame tu
nombre, dámelo, te lo arrancaré, te lo re-
clasificaré, te ocultaré de ti, así mismo, solo un rato, no dolerá
mucho, piensa en un jardín, aparta tu mente de las
cosas, piensa mar, viento, trueno, raíz, piensa árbol que te mantendrá
erguido, imagina que te mantiene
erguido, elige ser quien eres, deprisa, elígelo, eso ayudará. La luna es más fría
de lo que piensas. Está llena de nada como
esta nuestra quietud. Intentamos que no se fijen en nosotros. Estamos en la quietud como si
fuera una vida otra en que infiltrarse. En nuestra piel
deslumbramos de inexistencia. Es un truco por supuesto pero a veces funciona. Si no lo
hace nos encontrarán, nos harán
gritar y arrastrarnos. Ansiaremos el perdón. No importa para qué, aquí no hay
hechos. Luna, ¿quién escribirá
el último poema? Tu velo echa a volar, su inutilidad hace sentir que aún
hay tiempo, ahora es cosa de dos,
me estás pidiendo que me pierda a mí misma.
En este desbordamiento de mi ojo,
lo hago.
Waning moon. Rising now. Creak, it goes. Deep
over the exhausted continents. I wonder says my
fullness. Nobody nobody says the room in which I
lie very still in the
darkness watching. Your heart says the moon, waning & rising further.Where is it. Your
keep, your eyes your trigger
finger your spine your reasoning—also better to
refuse touch,
keep distance, let the blood run out of you and the white stars gnaw you, & the thorn
which is so white outside in the field,
& the sand which is sheetening on the long beach, the soldiers readying, the upglance
swift when the key words, of prayer, before
capture, are
uttered, a shiver which has no hate but is not love, is neutral, yes, un-
blooded, as where for instance a bud near where
a hand is unlocking a
security-catch calls
out, & it is an instance of the nobody-there, & the sound of water darkens, & the wind
moves the grasses, & without
a cry the cold flows like a watchdog’s
eyes, the watchdog keeping his eye out for difference—only difference—& acts being
committed in your name, and your captives arriving
at your detention center, there, in your
eyes, the lockup, deep in your pupil, the softening-up, you paying all your attention
out, your eyes, your cell, your keep, your hold,
after all it is yours, yes, what you have taken in, grasp it, grasp
this, there is no law, you are not open to
prosecution, look all you’d like, it will squirm for you, there, in this rising light, protected
from consequence, making you a
ghost, without a cry, without a cry the
evening turning to night, words it seemed were everything and then
the legal team will declare them exempt,
exemptions for the lakewater drying, for the murder of the seas, for the slaves in their
waters, not of our species, exemption named
go forth, mix blood, fill your register, take of flesh, set fire, posit equator, conceal
origin, say you are all forgiven, say these are only
counter-resistant coercive interrogation techniques, as in give me your
name, give it, I will take it, I will reclassify
it, I will withhold you from you, just like that, for a little while, it won’t hurt
much, think of a garden, take your mind off
things, think sea, wind, thunder, root, think tree that will hold you
up, imagine it holding you
up, choose to be who you are, quick choose it, that will help. The moon is colder
than you think. It is full of nothing like
this stillness of ours. We are trying not to be noticed. We are in stillness as f it were an
other life we could slip into. In our skins
we dazzle with nonexistence. It is a trick of course but sometimes it works.If it
doesn’t we will be found, we will be made to
scream and crawl. We will long to be forgiven. It doesn’t matter for what, there are no
facts. Moon, who will write
the final poem? Your veil is flying, its uselessness makes us feel there is
still time, it is about two now,
you are asking me to lose myself.
In this overflowing of my eye,
I do.
deslumbramos de inexistencia. Es un truco por supuesto pero a veces funciona. Si no lo
hace nos encontrarán, nos harán
gritar y arrastrarnos. Ansiaremos el perdón. No importa para qué, aquí no hay
hechos. Luna, ¿quién escribirá
el último poema? Tu velo echa a volar, su inutilidad hace sentir que aún
hay tiempo, ahora es cosa de dos,
me estás pidiendo que me pierda a mí misma.
En este desbordamiento de mi ojo,
lo hago.
(traducción: Rubén Martín)
GUANTANAMO
over the exhausted continents. I wonder says my
fullness. Nobody nobody says the room in which I
lie very still in the
darkness watching. Your heart says the moon, waning & rising further.Where is it. Your
keep, your eyes your trigger
finger your spine your reasoning—also better to
refuse touch,
keep distance, let the blood run out of you and the white stars gnaw you, & the thorn
which is so white outside in the field,
& the sand which is sheetening on the long beach, the soldiers readying, the upglance
swift when the key words, of prayer, before
capture, are
uttered, a shiver which has no hate but is not love, is neutral, yes, un-
blooded, as where for instance a bud near where
a hand is unlocking a
security-catch calls
out, & it is an instance of the nobody-there, & the sound of water darkens, & the wind
moves the grasses, & without
a cry the cold flows like a watchdog’s
eyes, the watchdog keeping his eye out for difference—only difference—& acts being
committed in your name, and your captives arriving
at your detention center, there, in your
eyes, the lockup, deep in your pupil, the softening-up, you paying all your attention
out, your eyes, your cell, your keep, your hold,
after all it is yours, yes, what you have taken in, grasp it, grasp
this, there is no law, you are not open to
prosecution, look all you’d like, it will squirm for you, there, in this rising light, protected
from consequence, making you a
ghost, without a cry, without a cry the
evening turning to night, words it seemed were everything and then
the legal team will declare them exempt,
exemptions for the lakewater drying, for the murder of the seas, for the slaves in their
waters, not of our species, exemption named
go forth, mix blood, fill your register, take of flesh, set fire, posit equator, conceal
origin, say you are all forgiven, say these are only
counter-resistant coercive interrogation techniques, as in give me your
name, give it, I will take it, I will reclassify
it, I will withhold you from you, just like that, for a little while, it won’t hurt
much, think of a garden, take your mind off
things, think sea, wind, thunder, root, think tree that will hold you
up, imagine it holding you
up, choose to be who you are, quick choose it, that will help. The moon is colder
than you think. It is full of nothing like
this stillness of ours. We are trying not to be noticed. We are in stillness as f it were an
other life we could slip into. In our skins
we dazzle with nonexistence. It is a trick of course but sometimes it works.If it
doesn’t we will be found, we will be made to
scream and crawl. We will long to be forgiven. It doesn’t matter for what, there are no
facts. Moon, who will write
the final poem? Your veil is flying, its uselessness makes us feel there is
still time, it is about two now,
you are asking me to lose myself.
In this overflowing of my eye,
I do.
(del libro Sea Change -2008-)