Eva Durán / The woman you loved

THE WOMAN YOU LOVED

By Eva Durán

Translated from Spanish by Anabel Torres

The woman you loved
During a night of wine
The sorceress
Who danced above you
Who kissed you in the mirror
Has satiated her
Body with music
And keeps nothing
In memory of your name
Not even the petty consolation
Of her disdain.

Eva Durán / The Perverted One

Angelicatas

THE PERVERTED ONE

By Eva Durán
Translated from Spanish by Anabel Torres

The perverted one
The good little girl in a sky-blue room
The quiet deep-rooted lover,
The night on fire turning into
Skin
The hopelessly ubiquituous
Who always leaves
Without saying goodbye
Without giving a kiss
Without admitting that she’s happy,
That she likes to be alive
That having been born suffices her,
The one who has learned to forgive
Above all things
and that precisely for that reason
Her hands are full,
That’s why she sings at dawn
That’s why she smiles when they say she’s
mad,
The one who came naked to the mango’s heart
Without a knife and fork
Closing her eyes
Chewing slowly
And the one who wakes up with you
Absent-mindedly
Because she expects nothing
Because she likes to devour you
Because she reads Fallaci
Because she
Loves you.

Eva Durán / Even if you don’t love me



EVEN IF YOU DON’T LOVE ME

By Eva Durán
Translated from Spanish by Anabel Torres

Even if you don’t love me
And don’t desire my small breasts
In your mouth
Very softly... dawn comes.