Commentary XXVIII (saint john of the cross)

Selected Poems of Juan Gelman
translated by Hardie St. Martin

many ways of remembering rise
from you / intimate waves /
or movements like worlds
spinning toward you / in you / all yours /

earth of you I walk upon / my self
stretched out like a tiny root
your memory shelters from
the danger of the night’s animals

when distant stranger to yourself
you crackle / from you to you /
or dream yourself into my memory
that dreams remembering you /

or else i recognize your face
like memory in every face like
radiance from you / like a look in your eyes
where i see myself remembered

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