Today is a day of reflection prior to the Spanish elections tomorrow, and the Junta Electoral has reminded us that on such days la ley prohibe todo acto de propaganda – the law bans the staging of any act of propaganda or electoral campaigning.
That has been ruled to include the recent protest gatherings – las manifestaciones y concentraciones – across the country, so I suppose I must keep quiet and reflect. (But without concentrating.)
In my room
I have placed two mirrors
opposite each other.
Between four walls
I have caught
a fragment of infinity.
That’s the last – and probably the best – stanza from an old poem called Workspace, published in Roundyhouse magazine back in April 2002.
The quotation under the photo is from Wendy Cope’s Roger Bear’s Philosophical Pantoum.
don't confuse the narrator 