Outside the Body


 Traducción: Billy B. Thompson


In the gap of the body, the smallest of heads
appears.


The body contracts, a woven quiet nest, rips
open.

Covered in filth he emerges, one side of his mouth hangs
tenderly to the right.

Never did I make ready a crib, there was no need.


Entrevista y traducción al inglés de seis poemas de su libro Navajas sobre la mesa”  Traducción y entrevista: Billy B. Thompson En: Essays in homage to John Esten Keller,  Editorial Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs, EE.UU, 2012,  pp. 283-291.