La Reversible

Dannie Abse nació en 1923 en Cardiff (Reino Unido), donde murió en 2014.  TALKING TO MYSELF   In the mildew of age all pavements slope uphill   slow, slow, towards an exit.   It´s late and light allows the darkest shadows to be born of it.   Courage , the ventriloquist bird cries (a little god he is, censor of language)   remember plain Hardy and dandy Yeats in their inspired wise pre-dotage .   I, old man, in my new timidity, think how, profligate, I wasted time   – Those yawning postponements on rainy days, those paperhat hours of benign frivolity.   Now Time wastes me and there’s hardly time To fuss for more vascular speech.   The aspen tree trembles as I do and there are feathers in the wind.   Quick, quick Speak, old parrot, Do I not feed you with my life?     HABLANDO SOLO   En el moho de la vejez todos los pavimentos ascienden cuesta arri...