WHO GIVES LIGHT

WHO GIVES LIGHT

When you look at me,
my eyes are keys,
the wall has secrets,
my fear has words, poems.
Only you make up my memory
a fascinated traveler,
an incessant fire.

ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK, Argentina (1936 – 1972)
Translation: Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley H. Barkan
From “La voz del otro lado – De stem aan de andere kant”

Poesía moderna de Argentina
POINT Editions, 2010