In a place where oxygen is motivation.
Turning without a sound,
The wind is only white noise as it rushes past.
Making my ears bleed.
Falling into oblivion.
Slow motion making me feel that I have all the time in the world to regret my decision.
Yet, mere seconds have ticked away from my grasp.
And it burns me like a second skin...
I'm watching from outside my own body.
This new and foreign territory.
All for strange eyes.
In Limbo.
Where perspective is like a hazing dream.
And I've got to go soon...
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde
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