Humberto Ak'abal Memories

Now and then
I walk backwards.
It is my way of remembering.

If I only walked forward,
I could tell you
about forgetting


Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris
This last poem in this sequence was originally published in Guchachi 'Reza' 'Iguana Rajada,' Revista de la Casa de la Cultura de Juchitan, Oaxaca, pp. 49-50, Quinta Epoca, Primavera de l995.