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translated by Olivia Lott

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Credit

Copyright © 2021 by Lauri García Dueñas and Olivia Lott. Published in Poem-a-Day in partnership with Words Without Borders (wordswithoutborders.org) on September 25, 2021 by the Academy of American Poets.

About this Poem

As a child, one of my first fascinations was time that doesn’t come back. ‘0’ is part of my poetry collection El tiempo es un texto indescifrable (Time Is an Undecipherable Text), which was published by Editorial Literal in 2012. It is an homage to Mexico City and also to Mexicali, on the United States border. Images following one another without commas or periods try to represent the speed of the city, love, desire, and time that does not stop, that does not end.”
Lauri García Dueñas, translated by Olivia Lott