Curtis Bauer

emergency XI

emergencia XI

in the original Spanish

we go there together and alone
this patio is so big it reaches childhood
and a vertical drum rises to the sky

 

rhythm violence of his bodies
of his numerous

 

distant and he runs this way
game request of the impossible
of another complicity

 

the others jump we
look at them they protect us to look
is to build oneself a ceiling a sky

 

who knows his voice his own

 

ceiling sky of childhood
tenderness tale of us


Translated by Curtis Bauer
“emergency” is from Temperatura voz [Voice Temperature] (Barcelona, Pre-Textos, 2010).

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