“Pero
una estatua de sal
no es una Musa inoportuna....”
Carlos Martínez Rivas
She sits on the sidewalk
outside the shop in a black mesh chair.
Dressed in the latest fashion,
she sits one long leg draped over the
other,
in a perfect pose of being about to
rise recognizing you.
She sits a martyr's plaster of
eagerness with the littlest kiss of lipstick.
She sits waiting for you during
daylight & vanishing every night.
The shop girl sitting within, mobile in
ice and boredom,
simply can't compete.
E. A. Costa 26 December, 2014 Granada, Nicaragua
“Pero
una estatua de sal
no es una Musa inoportuna....”
Carlos Martínez Rivas
Sentada
en una silla
de red negra
en la acera
fuera de la tienda
es vestida
a la última moda
cruzando las piernas
una sobre otra.
Se está sentando
a la postura perfecta
de estar por levantarse
para contigo encontrarse.
El rostro es yeso de mártir deseoso
la muchacha de tienda
móbil en hielo y hastío
con ella no rivaliza.
E. A. Costa diciembre 26 2014, Granada, Nicaragua*
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* N.B. This began as a fairly literal translation and
slowly turned into something a bit different, so to say,
structurally, though still a translation.
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