MY FATHER IS LIGHT

MY FATHER IS LIGHT

My father is as light as a flower
when he falls in autumn like the leaves
of the book which he ever read
in the warmth of the winter.
When you leave from here,

Father,
I will leave as well.
Something of you
will remain in me,
always.
And something of me
will always go with you.

ENRIQUE SOLINAS, Argentina 1969
Translation Germain Droogenbroodt

From: Barcas sobre el zarzal ardiente, 2016 Buenos Aires: editions of the Dock

Collection Castaway fish.