Poetry
THE SUDDEN

THE SUDDEN

LA SÚBITA

Eduardo Mitre

Translation by Gabriel Mitre

A sack of letters

overspills:

Eight rise up and

¡zing!

appears the squirrel.

     Upright, static

like an Egyptian goddess

she pretends not to notice me.

She rummages, picks something up,

smells it, grinds it up

but we don’t know what.

Rain drizzles. She lifts her tail

placing it overhead

like an umbrella.

Peering at the horizon,

she sharpens her gaze

and shoots away: where?

With just one stitch,

she sews and unsews

her presence in space.

 

*Image by Rubí Flores

Eduardo Mitre (Oruro, Bolivia, 1943) is the author of MoradaMirabiliaDesde tu cuerpoRazón ardienteFerviente humoElegía a una muchacha and  Líneas de otoño.  

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