Proceso de la historia
El mañana elaboramos
cada día con esfuerzo,
es proceso de la historia
que reescribe nuestra vida.
Amanda Ackermann
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Proceso de la historia
El mañana elaboramos
cada día con esfuerzo,
es proceso de la historia
que reescribe nuestra vida.
Amanda Ackermann
We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder.
It’s almost romantic as we adjust the waxy blue recycling bin until you say, Man, we should really learn some new constellations.
And it’s true. We keep forgetting about Antlia, Centaurus,
Draco, Lacerta, Hydra, Lyra, Lynx.
But mostly we’re forgetting we’re dead stars too, my mouth is full
of dust and I wish to reclaim the rising—
to lean in the spotlight of streetlight with you, toward what’s larger within us, toward how we were born.
Look, we are not unspectacular things.
What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love
harder?
“Dead Stars,” from The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) by Ada Limón.
Tem um alien escrevendo...
Tem um poeta olhando pela janela da espaçonave
Era un febbraio strano. Il sole mi cuoceva le palle e la notte mi ghiacciava il cuore. Lei doveva partire. Stava partendo. Volevo vederla, così le dissi che ci dovevamo incontrare. Iniziava a nevicare, forte. Sul nostro destino. Le strade erano intasate, la città bloccata. Le teste di cazzo continuavano ad esistere e la sfiga mi perseguitava. Non mi perdevo d’animo anche se venivo sempre smentito. “Ci vediamo stasera, dopo cena.” “Va bene. Ma le strade sono ancora piene di neve!” “Troverò un modo. A qualsiasi costo.” Era vero, a qualsiasi costo sarei andato da lei. “Dai, non preoccuparti.” Non preoccuparti mi diceva, robe da matti. Non mi conosceva ancora bene, nessuno mi conosceva. Guardai sul cellulare la distanza tra me e lei. Così poca ma così infinita. Misi il giubbotto e uscii di casa. Incominciai ad incamminarmi. Si, stavo andando da lei. Ne avevo il bisogno, sentivo il dovere di farlo nei confronti di me stesso. Così verso l’ora di pranzo barcollavo nella sua direzione. Ogni tanto facevo piccole pause, il cuore impazziva ed ero stanchissimo. “Sto arrivando.” “Ahahah dai deficiente.” Amavo essere insultavo, nel suo modo così dolce. “A che ora facciamo?” Le chiesi. “Lascia stare, sei matto! Ti gelerai mani e i piedi." Aveva maledettamente ragione, ma cosa me ne importava. Non sentivo più niente da parecchio tempo, Cosa me ne facevo di quattro parti del mio corpo se non avevo il resto? Era l’unica cosa che mi facesse sentire qualcosa. Verso l’ora di cena non mi mancava tanta strada. Non vedevo più niente, il vento era fortissimo e la polvere bianca si insediava fin dentro la mia anima. Facevo fatica a respirare. “Vado a dormire mi sa.” Non riuscivo più a scrivere, Le dita avevano perso sensibilità. “No” le risposi. Più risposta, più segni di vita. Sentivo di aver fallito. Mi accasciai a terra, nel fango puro che scendeva dal cielo. In ginocchio, con la testa chinata. In segno di sconfitta. Stupido idiota. Cercavo dolore ma ormai tutto era sparito. Lei se n’era andata. La rabbia copriva tutto e la tristezza mi cullava. Tornai a casa, nè sano nè salvo. Mi accasciai nuovamente sul letto, con la bottiglia di Jack in parte a consolarmi. Mi scese una lacrima. Era la fine. M.A.
Quehacer de la experiencia
Artífice de nuestros gestos
que duplican el hacer,
quehacer de la experiencia
que es respuesta del actuar,
anhelo de la esperanza
que no olvida tu verdad.
Amanda Ackermann
this is the month you find a kohl pencil that works for you and learn a new favorite way to wear it. no online tutorials necessary, you just pick it up one morning and look at your face
and it's instinct, to draw mahogany straight down the barrel of your lashes, no tearing up, no hesitation. your hand doesn't shake when you repeat the motion. you look at the shape of your face
and remember being fifteen, invited on sufferance to a classmate's over-ostentatious sweet sixteen, and when you get there you see in their faces what your mother didn't know how to say at the mall: your dress is wrong, your shoes are wrong, your hair is wrong, your face is bare. you've never been invited to the fancy parties before, the ones held in a hotel ballroom with a dj booth and not enough lighting and the real party happening in a hotel room off to the side somewhere. how would you have known? your classmates pull you into the room. you still remember the cut of the curtains, the edges of the dresser. you look at the shape of your face
that you don't recognize. one of them produces an eyeliner pencil, tells you she can fix your face for you. only you have never been okay with people trying to touch your face (with people trying to touch you) and you struggle and they're too rough and you tear up and mostly you're terrified they're going to poke out the contact lenses you spent thirty-six minutes forcing into your head. eventually they give up and you apologize to them. at this distance you remember nothing else about the party but you remember them standing in the driveway after talking about what a fright you looked like and how even when you're trying you never get it right. the boy you've loved for years is standing with them and as you back out of sight you hear him say, quietly, that he thought you looked sweet. but he says it quietly and no one wants to look sweet at sixteen and he might as well have said that it's sweet how some dogs balance on their hind legs and think it makes them human and for years and years you despise the shape of your face
until the year you stop trying to shape it. the year you stop ripping your hair out by the roots for someone else's comfort. or wearing clothes that stifle your soul or biting back stories that feed it. your shoes are just comfortable and the only dress in your closet you found in a donation pile and it fits like it was made for you and you look at your face
that is just your face and wear kohl to hospital waiting rooms and grocery stories and bus benches and family gatherings, everywhere you need a little reminder that you've already got everything you need.
Ruptura.
Un nuevo día llegó
Lo malo ya pasó,
Eso quiero creer
Y aunque no lo puedo ver,
Siento un extraño dolor
Brotando en mi interior,
Quemandome por dentro
Aumentando el rencor
Que he guardado por témor
Al desahogo de un corazón
Que fué traicionado, apuñalado
Y luego abandonado,
Aquel día que te fuiste
Me dejaste solo y triste,
Aquellos días junto a ti
No los puedo describir,
Almas gemelas pareciamos,
No te puedo mentir
Me enamore de ti
Pero. Todo cambio..
En el momento que el llegó
Pues llegaste a ignorarme,
Llegaste a abandonarme,
Destruyendo el amor
Que este chico te brindó
No te voy a mentir,
Mucho yo sufrí,
Y no puedo describir
Todo lo que sentí
Aqella vez que te perdí,
Pues no supe que hacer
Muy solo me encontre
Pero alli reflexioné
Al espejo me miré
Y pude entendér,
Que perdiste algo especial
Que solo yó te supe dar
Y que apartir de hoy,
No lo pienso malgastar,
Vete si quieres no te voy a rogar,
Vete ahora que te acabo de olvidar,
Vete rapidamente que no pienso malgastar,
Mi tiempo con alguien que no me supo valorar