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Alejandra Pizarnik, Armenian translation, ՆՇԱՆՆԵՐ, Ալէճանդրա Պիզարնիկ, poem, SIGNOS, SIGNS, Spanish translation
![[note: Gustav Klimt, Tragedy, 1898]](https://ghostsista.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/gustavklimt-tragedy-1897.jpg)
[note: Gustav Klimt, Tragedy, 1898]
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Alejandra Pizarnik
Ալէճանդրա Պիզարնիկ
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SIGNOS
Todo hace el amor con el silencio.
Me habían prometido un silencio como un fuego,
una casa de silencio.
De pronto el templo es un circo
y la luz un tambor.
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SIGNS
Let everything make love to the silence.
They pledged me a silence like fire,
like a house made of silence.
Swiftly the temple becomes a circus,
and the sunlight a tambourine.
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ՆՇԱՆՆԵՐ
Թույլ ամեն ինչ զույգվել այդ լռությունը.
Նրանք իմ խոստացել եմ լռությունը, ինչպես կրակի,
լռությունը, ինչպես տան պատրաստված լռությամբ.
արագ, տաճարը դառնում է կրկեսային,
արեւի դառնում է դափ.
memories of my ghost sista 
Like the poem and all, as usual. The Spanish stuff…how they say something is “like” is como se, as in un fuego. There’s another word for sunlight, but I don’t know off-hand what it is. I think a tambor is a drum, also. Are you getting the Spanish from a translator online? They are very proper in their translations, and don’t give the fine points of the language. I ran up against that the first time I lived in Mexico, that what I’d been taught in Spanish class didn’t work well in conversation. And every country is different. The best mistake I can think of is how people use “Quiero” for I want, and in many Latin American countries it is used for “I want you,” as in a sexual way…which leads to some odd situations. Hope all is well for Michiganders now that the freeze is over, or sort of.
Later…