TRANSLATED BY THE AUTHOR
Cooper Esteban
. . . henceforth
or, rather, therefore
it is daylight only
that challenges the staves
of the grate
those men
castrati
their hands in their pockets
nowhere near their tails
let them remember the sailors’
songs
women whose wet locks
swam like mosses around
the pylons at the port
Do you smell it?
They are busy at their scales