Snapshots

Snapshots ( see original )

1

motionless quiet
in front of the camera
hard smiling

let it seem I'm living 
let it seem I'm dead
 
camera meat 

2

(group photo)
 
all of us together 
for once
all of us together
 
so we believe
at least for an instant
 
and then -­‐
a single look 
reveals an absence
 
3
 
I review the image 
stop at a gesture
 
scared I discover 
the subtle fissure
through which life escapes 

4

on the borders of dream 
flowers the instant 
frozen into photograph
 
I restore life
to sovereign space

from “Del otro lado”, Editorial Huerga &Fierro,
Madrid, 2017

Traslated by Jonathan Boulting