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RON RODRIGUEZ
Trip
––by Vicente Gerbasi
In order to live with my
feelings
I start to draw
chrysanthemums
I get lost in the space
of my eyes.
I rub magic rocks
and
spooks jump out the rails
of
the midnight train.
The magicians
dance
in
front of the fiery ovens.
At the edge of the ocean
a
naked woman
takes
me to hear the sea shells
in
the darkness of the planets.
[From
Retumba
como un sótano
del cielo (Rumblings like a cellar from the sky), 1977, by Vecente
Gerbasi (1913-1992). Translated by Ron Rodriguez,
2009. Originally
published in NHS 2010, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs10/index.html.]