DESTROYED DISTANCE XII Poem by Carlos Obregón

Stranger: this is the passion of the angel:
to awake on the shore of the instant,
solitary among the words and the stones.
When only the tree of night exists,
what exists is enough for us
and time is the towers that wait facing the sea
for the nocturnal exile of your travels,
for the silence of the cloister.

These things are his voice, those hours that speak
with the Summer sun,
returning in the evening to their hard and true name
as the violence of the wind or the sea that invades us
returns in the ears.
Here is the time of the hands
renewed at night when the word dies.
Listen: in the grass, the sanctity of the world
and the questions sing today of the solitude of each step.

To live is to be his body, so that the gaze travels in its distance
like an aimless bird among the rocks
and then goes, exiled, and beyond the skin,
from the towers, from the sea as far as the angel
to be the route of the wind,
to go away and to err in the silence that peoples us.
Stranger: the noise of the wood is the power of just one instant,
the birth of the voices that speak to you.
It is the desert that inhabits itself: its solitude is ours.