I want to be one with you in the water - María Soledad Quiroga

I want to be one with you in the water

to feel in transparency

the body's weight,

to be real volume

in the midst of what flows

under an open sky

"diluted and translucent clouds"

I want to be color, defined shape

against foam and air

to be shadow among the sparks

that light up and fade

I want to be surface

for the liquid blow of the tide

and its desertion,

to be body

and possess its limits.

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María Soledad Quiroga (born 1957) Bolivia (born in Chile)

Translated by Sebastián Antezana

Source: Festival Internacional de Poesia de Medellin