Silvia RodríguezEnjambre de rickshaws y limpiazapatos persecución de ambulantes hasta las vías el hedor constante en la pituitaria salen perros de entre sacos de semillas. Me miras desde los raíles entre los excrementos me sonries bebes veneno para seducirme con tu turbia mirada con tu brillante rictus. El vagon se llena de perturbados semblantes. Corres y penetras mi corazon.
«Silvia Rodríguez, de nuevo, recupera con su voz poética,
ese ritmo ético de la nostalgia de los objetos usados, crea un
lenguaje nuevo; un lenguaje que le permite recuperar a un
personaje que vive e
Marabulla or Forfeits is Silvia Rodríguez's invitation to us to recover our past through hers, presented in a series of precious moments of innocence and love as viewed from the perspective and wisdom of adulthood. They are poems of the celebration of life and love lived carefree and the bitter-sweet experience of maturity and inevitable loss to which we can all relate, poetic snapshots of our existence in time and space and the forfeits we have to pay.Translating her work has triggered many happy memories of my own past that everyday experience had dulled and allowed me to celebrate, in a true Sankofa journey, the miraculous poetry of life and love.