If I wake in the middle of the night, touching you is enough. Your young man’s body breathes at my side like a free animal. This musculature constructed out of constant training rests by my side. The tennis player who triumphs on the public courts every Tuesday, the artist, the poet, the one who […]
Si me despierto en medio de la noche, me basta con tocarte. A mi lado respira tu cuerpo de hombre joven como animal en la naturaleza. A mi lado descansa esta musculatura construida en la constancia del entrenamiento. El tenista que triunfa en las pistas de barrio cada martes, el artista, el poeta, el […]
It’s about, above all, a theory of knowledge, of the manner in which a man steals himself little by little from the ideas of his time which he rejects. Marguerite Yourcenar, [on Zeno], Letter to Alain Bosquet, January 1, 1964 The reign of Hadrian is like the October the Japanese celebrate. But the […]
Se trata, sobre todo, de una teoría del conocimiento, del modo en que un hombre se sustrae poco a poco a las ideas de su tiempo, que rechaza. Marguerite Yourcenar, [sobre Zenón], Carta a Alain Bosquet, 1 de enero de 1964 El reinado de Adriano se parece al octubre que celebran los japoneses. […]
for Pablo García Baena The bodies were still in the sand at the edge of the water, sweetly fugitive, or a little more over here on the grass, when it turns into a completely urban shore. The bodies were still in the sand, and the Christs […]
para Pablo García Baena Aún estaban los cuerpos en la arena de la orilla del agua dulcemente fugitiva o un poco más acá sobre la hierba, cuando se convierte en ribera completamente urbana. Aún estaban los cuerpos en la arena, y pasaron los Cristos y […]
There is something inside love that belongs to this world. In the multiple instances in which everything makes sense since you arrived, in all the material suddenly converted to gift, the meadow we walk through, the terrace overlooking or wall that protects, also in the sweetness of days, in the humble routine of having […]
Aristotle says: a beautiful body should be observed in its totality. That’s how I saw you arrive this morning. You came in from riding your bike, an hour along the river bank. You showered. We swam together. Several lengths in the pool’s transparence. We made love afterwards, in love with being different and being […]