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They’ll grow between you and me, the mountains,

wide and vast the river of stone

will drag its riverbed to opposite banks

will shipwreck boats and bridges.

The jungle

will rise above us and over this city

and leave in its paths only

the saddened echo of wind’s murmur.

For me you’ll be the long absence of an absence

For you I’ll be the surf of a sea dissolving.

Such yearning disguises my appearance

my pallid face watches you indifferently

my entreaty for a chance made of silence

night trapped among my vertebrae.

Immune like the fog

your voice will be the song of other travelers.

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