“Looking for poems for this anthology, I realised that I tend to wonder, in my writing, how to be a woman, how I am a woman. I suppose that motherhood erased the few certainties that I thought I had about that, and at the same time it pushed me to look afresh, but this time seriously”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all have that little red mark somewhere.
On my left hand, the one I write with,
there\u2019s my own oven burn.
If I stare at it awhile, it fans out into a triad
over the radius:
my wrist becomes three-dimensional
and, if I squint hard enough, I can see
my mother\u2019s wrist, my grandmother\u2019s
and, with one twist forward, my daughter\u2019s, too,
covered with mosquito bites and smooth but
already resigned to the mark of the heated grill.
Translated by Gregary Racz for Review, Literature and Arts from the Americas<\/em>, 96. New York, Routledge, 2018.
<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Why on bad days we look at pictures from our trips<\/h5>\n\n\n\nNot to recall how we walked
along this street where the green orbs
of the traffic lights dissolved in the fog
and in some ancient strata of the sky
even the moon did a tired song and dance
but to tell ourselves: once
we slept facing this window
beside this patio we had coffee
in complete silence
and complete solitude
chewing this dark foreign bread
and noting in green ink:
I am this
this
is me
I
am
me.
Translated by Shira Rubenstein
<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Wind<\/h5>\n\n\n\nThe wind flung open the balcony doors
and undammed a river of scraps through the living room,
anything loose or resting on surfaces:
Cars playing cards, pencil shavings,
bills, wads of crepe paper,
drawings signed and unsigned,
a sticker, an uncoiled paper clip.
It roared, the wind, and brought a frenetic rain.
We went out to scream on the balcony,
my two children and I, because it was a hard year
and I figured we deserved it.
Translated by Shira Rubenstein
<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Plastic moon<\/h5>\n\n\n\nWe\u00a0are in a\u00a0dark\u00a0living\u00a0room\u00a0
where\u00a0I\u00a0want\u00a0everything\u00a0except\u00a0what\u00a0I\u00a0have.\u00a0
Without\u00a0shoes, on\u00a0the\u00a0floor,\u00a0drinking\u00a0wine\u00a0
from\u00a0crystal\u00a0glasses,\u00a0they\u00a0put\u00a0on\u00a0loud\u00a0music\u00a0
and\u00a0I\u00a0ask\u00a0myself:\u00a0why\u00a0do\u00a0we\u00a0\u00a0
never\u00a0play\u00a0this\u00a0music?\u00a0
The\u00a0possibility\u00a0of\u00a0pleasure\u00a0is\u00a0lifting me off\u00a0the\u00a0ground\u00a0
and\u00a0the\u00a0impossibility\u00a0of\u00a0pleasure\u00a0is\u00a0making\u00a0me\u00a0dizzy.\u00a0
I lean\u00a0out\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0window\u00a0to\u00a0take\u00a0in\u00a0some\u00a0air,\u00a0
but\u00a0there\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0any\u00a0more,\u00a0here,\u00a0than\u00a0the\u00a0tight\u00a0alignment\u00a0
of\u00a0back patios and\u00a0fire\u00a0escapes,\u00a0
the\u00a0absence\u00a0of\u00a0sound\u00a0sarcastically\u00a0shaken\u00a0
by\u00a0the\u00a0magical\u00a0music, a\u00a0darkness\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0city\u2019s\u00a0suburbs\u00a0
barely\u00a0known.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0why\u00a0I\u00a0need\u00a0to\u00a0go\u00a0out\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0street.\u00a0
I\u00a0put\u00a0on\u00a0my\u00a0shoes,\u00a0leave,\u00a0
under\u00a0the\u00a0muddy\u00a0light\u00a0that\u00a0the\u00a0chequered\u00a0floor\u00a0sucks\u00a0in\u00a0like\u00a0a\u00a0sponge,\u00a0
and\u00a0while\u00a0I\u00a0think\u00a0so\u00a0much, I\u00a0think.\u00a0
Why\u00a0do\u00a0we\u00a0never\u00a0play\u00a0this\u00a0music?\u00a0
I stop on\u00a0the\u00a0frozen\u00a0pavement.\u00a0There\u00a0are no\u00a0smells.\u00a0
I\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0make\u00a0out\u00a0the\u00a0window\u00a0
from\u00a0which\u00a0I\u00a0have\u00a0come. A\u00a0group\u00a0of\u00a0men\u00a0in\u00a0the\u00a0shadows\u00a0
take\u00a0me back to\u00a0fearfulness. Oh,\u00a0but\u00a0thanks.\u00a0
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