REPETITIONS, SECOND SERIES
Philomela
Thus, even with her tongue cut out, Philomela narrated
her torments by weaving them, one by one, with patience
and faith on her chiton, in modest colours — purple,
grey, white and black — as it always happens with
the works of art — black is always in abundance. All
the rest — Procne and Tireas with his axe and their pursuit
in Daulis
even the cutting out of the tongue, we consider insignificant,
we forget of them. Her chiton is enough,
the secret, the precise and her metamorphosis at the critical
moment in a nightingale. Yet, we say: without all the rest,
the insignificant things, would there had existed this exquisite
chiton and the nightingale?
Libros Libertad 