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Juan Manuel Roca

NO MAN’S LAND

No One
Paints a bird where once a tiger was.
Its roar wipes out the whistling. He sketches a tree
Where in bygone years he painted a mast.
Who will say that under tree and bird
A tiger sleeps
While a boat in full sail passes by.
This cloud
Was sheet in its rigging,
The chair rests against something that was a wall,
A blue horseman was the sky.
No One loves chiaroscuro,
The colours of forgetting,
The painters of fogs.
Rembrandt and Morandi
Asked after No One.

TIERRA DE NADIE

TIERRA DE NADIE

Nadie
Pinta un pájaro donde hubo tigre.
Su rugido borra el silbo. Traza un árbol
Donde antaño pintó un mástil.
Quién dirá que bajo árbol y pájaro
Duerme un tigre
Mientras cruza un barco a toda vela.
Esta nube
Fue sábana en su encordado,
La silla se reclina en algo que fue pared,
El cielo fue jinete azul.
Nadie ama el claroscuro,
Los colores del olvido,
Los pintores de nieblas.
Rembrandt y Morandi
Preguntaron por Nadie.
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NO MAN’S LAND

No One
Paints a bird where once a tiger was.
Its roar wipes out the whistling. He sketches a tree
Where in bygone years he painted a mast.
Who will say that under tree and bird
A tiger sleeps
While a boat in full sail passes by.
This cloud
Was sheet in its rigging,
The chair rests against something that was a wall,
A blue horseman was the sky.
No One loves chiaroscuro,
The colours of forgetting,
The painters of fogs.
Rembrandt and Morandi
Asked after No One.

NO MAN’S LAND

No One
Paints a bird where once a tiger was.
Its roar wipes out the whistling. He sketches a tree
Where in bygone years he painted a mast.
Who will say that under tree and bird
A tiger sleeps
While a boat in full sail passes by.
This cloud
Was sheet in its rigging,
The chair rests against something that was a wall,
A blue horseman was the sky.
No One loves chiaroscuro,
The colours of forgetting,
The painters of fogs.
Rembrandt and Morandi
Asked after No One.
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