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Kintsugi or Troubling the Grave

4/5/2014

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Kinstsugi
por Katrina Spencer

Seguís, vuesá merced, probando las esquirlas de lo que éramos;
yo ya metí las sobras, migas y cenizas en un cajón,
 mucho tiempo ya empolvadas, quase olvidadas.

La ternura que compartimos se despedazó anteayer,
y sus agudos bordes amenazan cortar las mismas yemas
que supieron el gusto umami de mí en aquellos borrosos días.

Quién pudiera ser japonés,
un alfarero sentado en su altar
dando nuevas formas a la arcilla de nuestros ayeres:

Así donde los vieres, corregirías
las roturas de disculpas no pedidas
las durezas de lágrimas no expulsadas
los  huecos de llantos no soltados


Así adonde pudieres, nos equilibrarías; volverías a escribir nuestra historia
haciendo convexas con oro las grutas de los hondos, planas las superficies
tapando las fisuras, cerrando las brechas y congelando el vapor de los respiros de nuestro ayer.













Troubling the Grave
by Katrina Spencer

Thou doth continue, m’lord, fingering the shards of what we were;
I hath long stored our leftovers, crumbs and ashes
in one dusty, mostly forgotten drawer.


The ties of gentle affections we shared came undone a fortnight ago,
and their cords threaten to strangle the memory of  breaths
taken in amorous unison on those now opaque days.

If only one could master the kintsugi arts,
as a potter seated on an altar
giving new forms to the clay of our yesterdays:

Then, wherever thou might see them, wouldst thou repair
the splinters of pardons not supplicated
the obsidian hardness of uncried tears
the hollows of repressed lamentations

Then, wherever thou couldst, wouldst though duly balance our story
making the caverns convex and the surfaces smooth;
wouldst though seal the fissures, close the gaps
and freeze the sighs of our yesterdays, so wont they are to escape.

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Kat
5/18/2014 04:50:56 am

http://www.conniewonnie.com/2014/01/to-repair-with-gold.html

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