Brief Comment about first poem of a book of peruvian author Sebastian Salazar Bondy

Brief Comment about first poem of a book of peruvian author Sebastian Salazar Bondy

Sebastián Salazar Bondy was a Peruvian intellectual of the 1950s and his work has been widely studied and appreciated by the Peruvian social sciences community.. He wrote a famous essay called "Lima, the horrible", in which he criticized the cultural and social realities of Lima in the mid-20th century. On this occasion, I would like to mention that I have read a book of poems called "Holographic Testament" written by him a few months before he died of cancer.

The poem is this:

I leave my shadow,

a sharp needle that wounds the street

and with sad eyes examines the walls,

the barred windows where there were incapable loves,

the sky without sky of my city.

I leave my spectral fingers

that ran over keys, bellies, waters, honey eyelids

and through which the writing descended

like a virgin with a frayed soul.

I leave my ovoid head, my spider legs,

my suit burned by the ashes of omens,

discolored by the fire of the nocturnal book.

I leave my wings half-beaten, my typewriter

that like a small horse galloped year after year

in search of the source of pride where death dies.

I leave several notebooks wormy from laziness,

a few unruly images of the world

and among great lightning some crying

that I had like a bit of dirty dust in my teeth.

Accept this, gather it in your lap like crumbs,

feed oblivion with such a fragile delicacy.