Alfonsina Storni Life Poems

• 1. Sweet Torture
  My melancholy was gold dust in your hands;
  On your long hands I scattered my life;
  My sweetnesses remained clutched in your hands;
  Now I am a vial of perfume, emptied
  ...
• 2. Parasites
  I never thought that God had any form.
  Absoute the life; and absolute the norm.
  Never eyes: God sees with the stars.
  Never hands: God touches with the seas.
  ...
• 3. My Sister
  It's ten o'clock at night; in the room in semidarkness
  My sister is asleep, hands on her chest;
  Her face is very white and very white her bed,
  As if it understood, the light is almost unlit
  ...
• 4. They've Come
  Today my mother and sisters
  came to see me.
  
  I had been alone a long time
  ...

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