698 | Heterodoxies at the Aegean Sea – Natalia Fernández Diaz-Cabal, Spain

Painting by Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal

Heterodoxies at the Aegean Sea

II

All these heroes
have been
reduced to ashes,

to stones
that no longer support
the step-by-step
of the tunes
ripped from the entrails.

The abyss opens
there where
the darkness of the heroes
mimics

an immortal wound.

Natalia Fernández Diaz-Cabal, Spain

Translation Germain Droogenbroodt – Stanley Barkan

from: “Heterodoxias del tempo y la palabra”
Ediciones Alondras, 2021

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Heterodoxias en el mar Egeo // II // Todos esos héroes/han quedado/reducidos a cenizas, a piedras/que ya no soportan/
el paso a paso/de las melodías/arrancadas a las entrañas/. El abismo se/abre donde/la oscuridad
de los héroes/imita una herida/inmortal.