Lila Zemborain trans. Lorenzo Bueno

Ra        Ma      Da       Sa        Sa        Se        So        Hung

We are in the courtyard

and we suddenly see

beyond the magnolia

or between the magnolia and the house

some blue cubes

which have the consistency of sky

Three cubes all lined up

sailing through the sky

with some inscriptions

on each of their sides like dice

of gigantic

proportions

I tell them

look look

over there

And we are surprised

and we are amazed

and we are scared

by those three encrypted cubes

made of air

Not like clouds

because they are blue

nor transparent

because the sky

is not transparent neither

The sky is of a blue

consistency but one that is abstract

because it cannot be 

touched nor shaped

Three cubes

made from this substance

floating in

this precise direction

Ra        Ma      Da       Sa        Sa        Se        So        Hung

It cannot be said

what moves them

or who moves them

They move by themselves

resembling

unidentified spaceships

made from a texture

which could be weightless

or appearing as if gravity

does not affect them

although they are sailing

through a field of gravity

Their structure is not

wrapped in air

like balloons

Their structure is air itself

that blue color

three blue cubes

made of sky and air

with their mathematical inscriptions

sailing over the magnolia

Ra        Ma      Da       Sa        Sa        Se        So        Hung

I now understand

that this vision

underlines my thoughts

it expands them

it annihilates them

it solidifies them

like the theory of relativity 

or some scientific discovery 

which would constitute 

a quantum leap

in how we understand

life itself in its extension

on all sides of matter

like when I saw Magritte’s sky

on the other side of the belly button

and the body turned inside out

like a glove

Now it’s the same blue

from which all is formed

it’s the same aerial consistency

which reveals this intangible 

grasp

Intellectually serene

is this confusion

aerial

weightless

but of a colored 

immateriality 

as if color gave its form

to forgo its constitution  

neither matter nor anti-matter

color without gravity

atmosphere

Note: Ra Ma Da Sa is a Sanskrit healing mantra that has been repeated for thousands of years in meditative chanting.