- Removing heads
- Patience
- Eyelids
- In the rain
- A simple difficulty
- In the balance of impossibilities
- Bleeding 2
- Cherry trees in flower
- I don't want that
- Foreigner
Translation: Sarah J. Turtle &
Iņaki Mendiguren
Translation: Sarah J. Turtle &
Iņaki Mendiguren
In the balance of impossibilities
We've grown up with increasing pains,
with hot sleep on stones,
in the balance of impossibilities.
Playing with impossibilities
is not being unable to play.
Do not pick up the stone
unless it is to put it elsewhere.
Do not remove it from the earth whence it comes,
unless it is to hurl it far away.
I tell you in all honesty,
we have lived with impossibilities.
No matter where we go
we carry the same smell under our skins.
The damp earth smell
like the smell of mother,
under our skin
no matter where we go.
It cannot be easily removed.
Who has never detested
whom he loves most?
Who has never detested
the damp earth smell
under the skin?
We've grown up with increasing pains,
with hot sleep on stones,
in the balance of impossibilities.
© Leire Bilbao
© of the translation: Sarah J. Turtle & Iņaki Mendiguren