TO WHAT WATCHING WITH ·
ATTENTION REVEALS
The mirrors reflect,
they don't retain
it is impossible
to get into the body of a mirror
or to have the mirror penetrating us,
and we perceive the emptiness
emptied of the painful
instants of unfitness
for keeping, retaining,
emptiness
that relieves apprehensions
the apprehension of accepting favors
apprehension in our misfortune.
Stillness and emptiness
like navigating the ocean
on a shadow,
birds,
compelling themselves to silence
so that no song
travels in their emptiness,
and that food, heat,
gained on being lost
and lost on being acquired,
result in a vacuum,
emptiness,
neither without, nor with, nor inside,
nor in the middle,
void without dualism, hollowness,
without one and two.
Translated
by
Mauricio Schoijet.
Alberto Girri
