De aquí no se va nadie
LEON FELIPE

We shall not move from here - as you very well know -
on this shore close together, leaning into the blustery wind,
into the bearings of the beach and the silences of asphyxia
- stubborn, stubborn, stubborn,
driven out, sullen and soiled
and anything else you like -
lacking a well established safe-conduct
with a lot of weighty seals, dripping,
where, with clarities of blood would be written
the whole truth, letter by letter.

Translated by Julie Wark