from Diary of a Venezuelan Transgender Woman # 2 - NaPoWriMo # 9

from Diary of a Venezuelan Transgender Woman

A translation of Ezdras Parra’s poem:

“Si me apoyo en el desvelo, vuelvo al mayor asombro...”

If I hold on to sleepless nights, I return to the greatest amazement  

I travel with birds in my agony

and place my defenses in the avalanche or restless months

I’m not just passing through and I don’t know how to hesitate

although I hear something like a subterranean flow of air under my feet

the murmur of my innocence

I am the unescorted pedestrian that lengthens the footpath.