Catherine Jagoe

Mario

 

With your left hand

in your jacket pocket

you stroke that gun at night

as if it were a woman

   or a wish

 

 


 

Translated by Catherine Jagoe

“Mario” first appeared in the collection En la boca de los tristes (Montevideo, LoQueVendrá, 2014).

 

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