Translations
No me alcanzan los brazos de la tierra
by Selva CasalTranslated from Spanish by Jeannine M. Pitas
The arms of the earth can’t hold me life can’t hold me
my lovers hurt me
they walk through my brain and become
the life I never had
the previous silence I’m now definitively dead
I had a house I had so many underground ghost children
at night strange things unknown voices
would harass me
you could have been my father
you could have been my son
the streets where we died
made no sense
you’ll never be that awake again
touch me there’s no part of my body
that isn’t universal
I know I grope in silence
for things I’ve not experienced
sad constellations
legs beaches sands
the mutilated the infirm
I will never be dead
my nails will still hurt
and the bodies the embraces
the journeys
each cell’s wild adventure.
