Soy un hotel/I am a hotel

by Sergio Coddou | Jun 17, 2015 | Poetry | 0

Soy un hotel

engalanado para recibir tus lamentos

con una habitación

especialmente acomodada

para desgranarme en tu presencia

y hagas de mí

sublime pop corn

con el fuego de tu mirada.

Y así yo,

como despojo en tus muelas,

saborearé el rastro de tus besos.

I am a hotel

decked out to receive your laments

with a room

especially accomodated

to shuck myself in your presence

and you make of me

sublime popcorn

with the fire of your glance.

And thus i,

like scraps between your molars,

will savor the trace of your kisses.

—Translated by Lea Graham

Previously published in Southern Humanities Review (Fall 2013)

Photo by Jayne

About The Author

Sergio Coddou

Sergio Coddou was born in Santiago de Chile in 1973. He is the author of two books of poems: Lyrics (Rottweiler Editions, 2005) and Machina (Tacitas Editions, 2007). In 2013 he published a translation of Robert Lowell’s poetry and prose, Apuntes Autobiograficos (UDP Editions, 2013). He has written articles, columns and essays about literature and music which have been published in Artes y Letras, “Revista de Libros” and various other journals. He is married and the father of four children. He has a B.A. in literature from the Catholic University of Chile (1998) and a graduate degree in General Literature from the University of Chile (2003). He is currently translating the prose and poetry of Delmore Schwartz for UDP Editions and is at work on a project that combines prose and poetry, whose working title is Bildungsroman.

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