Poemas de Jami Macarty

*A continuación publicamos dos poemas del libro The Long Now Conditions Permit en inglés, traducidos al español por Margarita Pintado para Distropika.

Go to the break of anything, it is a home

every bone in the river breaks

to free her throat’s brokered silence

there

her abode

*First published in The Long Now Conditions Permit published by the University of Nevada Press, 2025. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Nevada Press. © Jami Macarty 2025.

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Ve hacia el quiebre de cualquier cosa, es un hogar

cada hueso en el río se rompe

para liberar el silencio negociado de su garganta

allí

su morada

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Ocean

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What years blink away while a woman waits—

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She walks toward the syllables of an infinite god

carrying her own damage and worn by a wind

against what most wants to be given voice

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When wind gusts                            gull’s disturbed lift

   then clouds slight light

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Ocean breaks on the beach—

where touched               sand shadows

         and shapes

something coming to knowledge

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What a woman has lived through—

      undercurrents capsize currents

     her body capsized by a will

Horizon         drags belonging

        to another coast

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A pugency          in blue whale carcass the scent of her end

                                         breaches a panic

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Ocean repeats its song             chants                  Ride the waves

                  Unmoor              the privacy of your skin’s blue contusions

*First published in Interim: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, 36.5 2020. Subsequently, the poem appears in The Long Now Conditions Permit published by the University of Nevada Press, 2025. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Nevada Press. © Jami Macarty 2025.

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 Océano

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Años parpadean mientras una mujer espera—

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Camina hacia las sílabas de un dios infinito

cargando su propio daño, desgastada por un viento

contra eso que la mayoría querría decir

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Cuando las ráfagas de viento                perturban el ascenso de la gaviota

las nubes arden

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El océano rompe en la playa—

en donde son tocadas               las sombras en la arena

y las formas

Lo que se descubre

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Lo que una mujer ha vivido—

corrientes subterráneas volcando corrientes

su cuerpo volcado por una voluntad

El horizonte                arrastra pertenencias

a otra costa

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Una aspereza                   el aroma de su fin en el cadáver de una ballena azul

transgrede el pánico

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El océano repite su canción                   canta                     Cabalga sobre las olas

Desata                  la privacidad de las contusiones azules de tu piel.

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Jami Macarty is the author of The Long Now Conditions Permit, the 2023 Test Site Poetry Prize-winner, and The Minuses, the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award-winner, and four chapbooks. Supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, BC Arts Council, Macarty's writing is forthcoming in Action, Spectacle, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Conduit, Rain Taxi, and Seneca Review. Macarty supports writers as an independent mentor, editor, reviewer, and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the arborescent desert around Tucson, Arizona, and the rain coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.