Les cases no són parets... [versió en anglès]

The houses are not only walls and a door,
the houses are a door with a key and opaque walls
—and windows too, but windows only—
because, if the houses were made of glass, we would end up in a corner,
begging for walls, overwhelmed by the dizziness of a house
that faces the immensity of the stars.

Into the sky and beyond the horizon we head to
only until we close a window and put flowers into a vase.
And we look at them: concrete, ours,
without their world giving us the question back.

Oxana Koulikova Barros