Apparent Breviary
2
Every time I see the sun I believe in
an opposite. Necessarily
the true absence that extreme
liberty
my hands, they reply: blood doesn't kill.
It remains the same tiger,
who trembles again
in my hands
27
Desire is no one's
lip worn like
memory
eyes
death ahead
without will
without dilemma
without air
39
To the place
from before
44
To know then
Perhaps because two spaces
is
many
and two times now
(perhaps,
if a single time is already
memory
52
Must say something
Flee from the other's word
Without laughing. The word's
capacity
as water A balance.
The ordering of air
65
Never man
Only
one
78
To look,
without distracted eye
To not look Only there the center will be
a pall
nameless place speech,
so the body remains
without distress
without aura
93
The living.
Light expels travelers permanence
has no edge
like hair
does not wound,
does not present
place incarnates,
in intution
without edges
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Gaston Fernandez
Apparent Breviary
translated from the Spanish by KM Cascia
World Poetry 2025
