Marisa Martínez Pérsico - THE SKY IN PARENTHESES

That things
settle in their own mould
does not mean
that they have become ours.
Perhaps I mean to say
that the tree of absence
has branched and rooted
in the right place.

Like an unexpected guest
one must also learn to give
appropriate space
to emptiness.

Translated by Mark Gant
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