Alejandra Pizarnik

Extracción de la piedra de la locura (1968)
 
Poemas traducidos al inglés por Suzanne Jill Levine

Figures and Silence A Dream Where Silence is Golden Rescue Tête de jeune fille (Odilon Redon)  

Figures and Silence

                        A Dream Where Silence is Golden

    The dog of winter bites my smile. On a bridge, I was naked. I wore a hat with flowers and was dragging my naked corpse that wore a hat with dead leaves.
    I have had many loves—I said—but the most beautiful was my love of mirrors.

                                   Rescue

               It's always the lilac garden on the far side of the river.
               If the soul asks how far it is, the answer will be:
               not here, but there, on the far side of the river.

                     To Octavio Paz

                        Tête de jeune fille (Odilon Redon)

               the rain is music
               the years, silence
               one night passes
               my body
               will never remember again