El cielo

1

Es un libro
lleno de niños fantasmas,

muertos y a salvo

y muertos significa
escondidos

o deseando
o no deseando

ser conocidos.

2.

El cielo es simétrico
con respecto a la rotación.

Es hermoso
cuando una cosa cambia

mientras otra
permanece igual.

3.

Redundancias que desvanecen

Intervalos plumosos.

Volutas alternativas.

Estriaciones surgidas
Imaginarias.

“Imaginarias” significa
“visto por humanos”.

By Rae Armantrout
translated into Spanish, from the English, by Jose Antonio Villarán

 
Jose Antonio Villarán received his BA in Writing from SFSU in 2005. He Published “la distancia es siempre la misma” in 2006, and “el cerrajero” in 2012. He is the Creator of the AMLT project. He’s currently an MFA candidate in Writing at UCSD.

Rae Armantrout is one of America’s most important contemporary poets, some of her recent publications include Just Saying, published by Wesleyan University Press in 2013; and Versed (Wesleyan, 2009), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was also a finalist for the National Book Award.