Eva Gallud, SPAIN
i have seen the burning bones and spiraling ash
she cuts open lip seams
The Poems
i have seen the burning bones and spiraling ash | spinning emblem of a
rediscovered rite | the extinct deities are in our charge now | they continue
speaking | speaking to us | earth words | isthmus tongue | union cord
embrace tie seam link | all the words that mean
hand
or
undergrowth
she cuts open lip seams
her fine silver scissors
crunch clean through the cord
that stops the cry in the throat
the unseamstress carries no needle
with two clean wrinkled fingers
she lifts the huge stone from the cave mouth
revealing the wetness of the unnamed
her duty is not to obstruct
nor to seal off this well
with a sharp flash of her blade
the unseamstress lights
the true depth of the cavern
and in go the savage sisters
who by the light of new words
write their names on the rock
Translation by Will Morningstar
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he observado el incendio de los huesos hasta la espiral de polvo |
emblema giratorio de un rito recuperado | bajo nuestro cuidado quedan
las divinidades extintas | continúan hablando | hablándonos | lenguas
de tierra | el idioma de los istmos | unión ligadura abrazo lazo costura
vínculo | todas las palabras que significan
mano
o
espesura
ella descose puntadas sobre labios
la delicada tijera de plata
hace crujir el cordel que amarra el grito
la descosedora no posee aguja
con dos dedos limpios y arrugados
desplaza la piedra gigantesca ante la cueva
revela la humedad de lo innombrado
no es su tarea la trabazón
ni dejar ciegos los pozos
la descosedora alumbra
con el destello afilado de la hoja
la profundidad real de la caverna
allá se adentran las hermanas salvajes
a la luz de las palabras nuevas
escriben sus nombres sobre la roca
The Poet
Eva Gallud: Literary translator and writer. Among her translations can be found poets such as Emily Dickinson, Vera Brittain, Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon o Amy Lowell, and narrators such as Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, Mary Austin, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Barbusse o D.H. Lawrence.
She has published five books of poems. Raiz de ave is the last one. She has recently published her first novel: Los años oscuros.