Judith Mok: En un muelle de Chile alimentando a los pelícanos
Mother for Cliodhna Ní Ríordáin When mother died We opened the windows To let her time freeze up in the cold air Listening to the Brahms Requiem, I sang along That all flesh is ash, ash in her coffin. Inadequate machinery took it rattling down. We heard a hollow sound in our silence Driving through the polder, The firmament had landed on the ground Its stars frozen in the snow covered fields, To enter a box of concrete where we stood waiting For her flesh to turn to ash. A child voiced our last question, where had Grandmother gone? Then I stopped asking mother questions I crossed the Andes And saw a condor spread my scream Sat shiva for you, mother On a pier in Chile feeding the pelicans fish And the Pacific with the pages of my unread book Days of travel on a small bus Listening to Mahler's 4th in my earphones With that bus attendant, her wave of shining long hair Like a perpetual dark flag in front of my dead eyes. People handed ...