Nada poseo sino la palabra
el resto lo he perdido en el naufragio de los dias.
Nada poseo sino la palabra,
la palabra que ahora se escabulle dejandome solo.


I possess nothing but the word,
having lost the rest in the shipwreck of my days.
I possess nothing but the word,
the word now slipping away, leaving me on my own.


by Eduardo Chirinos,
trans. by G.J. Racz

Text taken from Mr. Knife Miss Fork: An Anthology of International Poetry #1 (Los Angeles 1998)
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