foto::photo

 Foto

El rostro

lleno de espera,

(Ella trabaja

en bloque.)

La arcilla,

suave.

Pero falta

todavía

ese aire desusado

de quien empleó su vida

en un solo aprendizaje:

no necesitar sostenerse.

Rafael Cadenas

Selected Poems

bid&co. editor, Caracas, Venezuela (2009)

 Photo

The face

full of expectation.

(She works

en bloc.)

The clay

soft.

But what's missing 

still

is that unused look

of a man who has spent his whole life

learning one lesson:

not to need to hold on.

Rafael Cadenas

Selected Poems

Translation by Rowena Hill

bid&co. editor, Caracas, Venezuela (2009)