Little Jeanne of Montréal, this gesture has become useless the houses have been bared and a forest grows within them amid lace curtains a fox approaches brushing up dust towards the light and even though these images accumulate one over the other they remain unable to portray the setting of our nostalgia right now […]
The corpse probes the humidity Thrown in a unknown place From an araucaria the night in the form of a bird None of us were there or were arrested The bullet inside froths with the rivers’ tread Its figure is lost in the fog Like a shadow that peeks through the ice The first […]
On the road that goes From the drugstore to Chinese food Fear not forget Who you were That time in a southern river The frozen current streaming between your legs The debris of abandoned larch Or those three dolphins that followed your stride Since it would be more terrible yet to return to that […]
At a bus window steamed by a long journey’s haul a little boy, his eyes unrepentantly, almost like lightning with just one of his fingers drew the solution to the enigma. Observing his work the conjunction of numbers and letters, he sheathed, unflinching, his sweater’s sleeve saluting thus the mist and its clearings in […]
He who always tried kicking the football That Lucy pulled away from his foot The boy whose comet a tree devoured. The work of a sad cartoonist Who portrayed himself even at his worst, Left by his wife with depression gripping at his neck. The day Charlie Brown decided to make a living Getting […]
The first condition for whaling: to grab the harpoon at the center from chagrin’s center; assimilate the solitary nature of a giant squid. All depth is just inhospitable geography, given there’s nothing but iron in the flesh, trimming beards, assessing the fat. All delicacy is abandoned on this stage, this choreography of blood, its […]
Claudia Rojas is a production assistant at the Teatro Colón’s Institute of Performing Arts (Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón). Incursions in translation work have long accompanied her professional endeavors, assisting professionals in the task of having their work available to English speaking readers and academics. Her translation work has served professors in the […]