Sin canon / Rafael Cadenas

With No Canon

You live
by letting yourself go.
You’ve given up so much ground
that you don’t feel yourself.
You rummage through yesterday
for your old design
and can’t recover it
and wouldn’t change it for the now
where you take root
foreignly.




{ Rafael Cadenas, En torno a Basho y otros asuntos, Madrid: Pre-Textos, 2016 }