emergency IX

there’s an order

he is his own sun and he revolves
he unfolds as if

everything alone

wind his weathervane
compass his desire

he just waits a now

his tuning fork his ear

he has driven water
he has danced a stave
he has jumped a fall a trampoline

his risk his biological violence

all fear spins sightless bird
all calm is with him

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

You can read and listen to the poem in the original Spanish here.