Vertiges

"Cities also believe they are the work of the mind or of chance, but neither the one nor the other suffices to hold up their walls. You take delight not in a city's seven of seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours"
Italo Calvino “Le città invisibili”

“Let the time go by!”
if only had it kept it
a single minute hadn’t gone by,
nor an instant, nor a flash;
the rodent rose its head,
and smiled satisfied.
It gnew the hours,
white the silence,
silent.
Aida Maria Zoppetti

Last night an ash tree
was about to speak
to me – it did not talk.
Octavio Paz