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Alejandra Pizarnik
Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine
A Dream Where Silence is Golden
Tête de jeune fille (Odilon Redon)
Trembling hands send me into exile
Let me not ask for help
They want me to fall like night, to go and die
Let me not ask for help.
A Dream Where Silence is Golden
The dog of winter bites my smile. On a bridge, I was naked. I
wore a hat with flowers
and was dragging my naked corpse that wore a hat with dead leaves.
I have had many loves—I said—but the most beautiful was my love of mirrors.
Rescue
To Octavio Paz
It's always the lilac garden on the far side of the river.
If the soul asks how far it is, the answer will be:
not here, but there, on the far side of the river.
Tête de jeune fille (Odilon Redon)
To André Pieyre de Mandiargues
the rain is music