If they ever grew inward earth’s tunnel would be pierced with pain. MAGGS/PIXABAY 22 WLT SUMMER 2019 Direction of Growth Flowers hats fingernails and doors grow outward. From the manuscript Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems of Gemma Gorga, English translation copyright © 2019 by Sharon Dolin. Editorial note: From Mur, copyright © 2015 by Gemma Gorga. The eraser, to erase the word before she could say it. The pencil, so she could gnaw the lead until she found the vagus nerve of the word. Good Manners The summer she turned seven they gave her a wooden pencil case with a pencil and eraser. Un dolor que coneixen coves i arrels i orelles i dones, que han après a créixer endins. Si mai creixen endins és perforant el túnel terrós del dolor. El Sentit del Creixement Flors i barrets i ungles i portes creixen enfora. La goma, per esborrar la paraula abans de dir-la. El llapis, perquè en rosegués la mina fins a trobar el nervi vague de la paraula. POETRY Two Catalan Poems by Gemma Gorga La bona educació L’estiu que complia set anys li van regalar un estoig de fusta amb un llapis i una goma. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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