A climate change poem by Luis Chavez, one of the leading poets in Costa Rica, is the latest in our series on the best of translation
By Luis Chaves, Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim for Translation Tuesdays by Asymptote, part of the Guardian Books Network
Someone’s going to dream about this.
Head in the second house, the body
centered: a brick, a bar,
equidistant from two gringos.
We were about to go somewhere else
when an alarm began to signal
another reality:
“In that photo”—it tells me— “fix
the pit stains on my shirt.”
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