I tested a thousand times
forcing my head to the neck in the joints where the universe ends
or throwing it rolling until the vertigo the endless blue of the skies empty. Unthinkable
limits; unthinkable immensity also unlimited.
My head was now a wreck inside the bubble of fever,
a trophy of God over the fence from exile, a seething
Arcimboldo in the pike erected in my bones;
yet hatched secret passages to the tower of salvation.
's turned upside down, the sun began to evaporate by inclement,
until melted into the tiny memory salt is just delete it from oblivion.
But each blank region was a surge towards the promised land.
light them up only to plunge into loss in the trappings of time, just to prove
forms of the night and thought of as an acid solution
ambiguous that preserved intact the agony.
has triumphed again against iron bars and rocks, landslides and empty.
And is not tried,
on wheels and wheels of visions in flames relentlessly overwhelm my place,
that even with hell accrete domains in this meager head? I played my heart
the storm, a swirling
insatiable wings went further that all borders. Against
eye that stuck where it drowns the dream,
against blackouts and capitulations, I played until the end of the open
to continuous brilliance, continued stabbing, pure loss.
I squeezed between two black rags, including broken glass,
as a relic whose worship exalt only transgression and sacrilege
tore the archangel in heaven promised, with his court of dogs
night executioner nailed side by side the scaffold of disagreements, then dug it
ice needles, spoons hungry
and found at the bottom of a small amulet:
a drop of mercury to pounds who is looking for atonement and death.
I've become so dark faces fixed stars, dust deposits
dazzled sites like jewels in the desert.
can witness those who loved and was loved by the end of
world-a world that does not end even under the cliffs of the goodbyes at close range.
"Where is then the defeat of a heart on tenterhooks
alert for the love of every day, free like a phoenix from the excesses? I bet
my arrival at each intersection of randomly greater mystery,
to this secret letter that touched the feet of the high adventures on the website of the legend.
To get there you had to go through the depths of the soul;
had to penetrate through swamps where splash death and madness, delusions
by greedy as catacombs and tunnels to the closure;
had to transpose fissures and wounds sometimes communicate with eternity.
not preserve my house or my clothes or my skin or my eyes.
The sanction was exposed to fierce guardians at the edge of the world,
in exchange for that step further into the abyss of love,
a recognizable echo of words only in the alphabet of dreams
half a dive into the icy waters that gnaw the threshold of the other side.
If I look back now, I see my footprints
left no footprints in the sand phosphorescent.
My journey is a blast lofts gray fog,
just a trickle of salt in the rain, a flight from foreign bands.
But I'm still here, holding my bet,
always all or nothing, as long as if it was the penultimate day of the centuries.
may have won by measuring the light that shines on you, greedy
by force that absorbs me sometimes a kingdom never seen and lived longer, the signal
incomparable grace that transforms in every possible loss miracle.
No. 17, the night drifting (1984)