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RON RODRIGUEZ

 

 

Change of Ghosts

––by Miguel Angel Flores

 

I look without seeing

into the darkness of my room

toward other eyes

that look without seeing me

and I will keep looking at them

until the fatigue that extinguishes

will flare up and dance in another space:

a ghost of the room that I know

will see and touch my quest of this night

 

 

[From Contrasuberna. (Against the Tide). Mexico City: Mortiz. 1981. Translated by Ron Rodriguez, 2009. Originally published in NHS 2010, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs10/index.html.]