Al anochecer
AT DUSK
At first I think she is calling a child, / my neighbor, leaning through her doorway / at dusk, street lamps just starting to hum / the backdrop of evening. Then I hear / the high- pinched wheedling we send out / to animals who know only sound, not / the meanings of our words - here here -/ nor how they sometimes fall short. / In another yard, beyond my neighbor's/sight, the car lifts her ears, turns first / toward the voice, then back / to the constellation of fireflies flickering / near her head. It's as if she can't decide / whether to leap over the low hedge, / the neat row of flowers, and bound/ onto the porch, into the steady circle / of light, or stay where she is: luminous/possibility - all that would keep h away from home - flitting before her. / I listen as my neighbor's voice trails off. /
De: "Guardia nativa", 2009, Bartebly Editores
Traducción: Luis Ingelmo.

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