Silvina Ocampo by Silvina Ocampo

Author:Silvina Ocampo
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-59017-805-8
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2015-01-05T05:00:00+00:00

Dialogues of the Silence

In the many secret catalogues

of time, where will those

long and lucid dialogues be found

that I imagined having with those I loved,

with those who so often waited for me

and following the rites of absence,

bearing me sorrow or joy, answered

my desire and never my conscience.

Where was my present voice,

in space, in its uncertain dwelling

(that sleep like subterranean water

crosses with light in the deserted darkness)?

As with the black statue of Memnon

that emitted real harmonies,

through what ages of evasion will it echo

in the company of foreign voices?

With their constant illustrations

of forests and people and mansions

preserved between dazzling pages,

where are those apocryphal conversations

pronounced by no one?

Do they exist on the wings of the winds,

in the cruel bond of glances,

in the memories of the firmaments?

Do they exist with their labyrinths and loves

like half-ruined houses

that carry the memory’s colors

in lost or broken floor tiles?

Where is the intricate manuscript

with its trembling hand in space

that the night seems to have written

so slowly, following thoughts!

I think it is somewhere and I sense

that it transforms the trees, the roses,

the doubts of pain, thought,

lies, love, all things;

that it will not let me die in peace

ignoring the magnificent ceiling

or the splendor of the sun, pink and lilac,

over the long clouds at sunset

forming now another universe in time;

I glimpse it at night, terrified,

as in a deep mirror which on the back preserves

another truth, the one that is imagined.

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