from the Spanish by Roberto Juarroz:

I think that at this moment,
maybe nobody in the universe is thinking of me.
I'm the only one who's thinking me,
and if I were to die now,
nobody, not even I, would think me.

And this is where the abyss begins,
as when I go to sleep.
I'm my own support and I take it away from me.
I help to curtain everything with absence.

This may be why
when you think of someone
it's like saving them.


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another dimension of silence