Cuando me quiten / Patricia Guzmán

When you take out

my heart



give it

to my sisters



They won’t know

what it says

who it names



But they will stick

their mouth to it

their hands

they will grope it

Every night



Give it to them




Canto de oficio (1997)




{ Patricia Guzmán, Con el ala alta: 1987-2003, Mérida, Venezuela: Ediciones El otro, el mismo, 2004 }