Hélène Cardona / Woodwork

Earth in Pain
Andrea Banjac

WOODWORK
by Hélène Cardona 

Hélène Cardona /  Travail d’orfèvre (Rimbaud)

Hélène Cardona /  Un trabajo de orfebre (De otros mundos)

If I could gather all the sadness of the world,
all the sadness inside me
into a gourd,
I’d shake it once in a while
and let it sing,
let it remind me of who I used to be,
bless it for what it taught me
and stare at it lovingly
for not seeping out of its container.

Hélène Cardona 

Life in Suspension

Salmon Poetry, 2016