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Young male tabby cat, Portugal: photo by Alvesgaspar, November 2010
En otro tiempo estás.
Eres el dueño
de un ámbito cerrado como un sueño.
You live in other time.
You preside over
a world as closed-off to us
as a dream.
La Bohémienne endormie (The Sleeping Gypsy): Henri Rousseau, 1897 (Museum of Modern Art, New York; image by Scewing, 2010)
Jorge Luis Borges: A un gato / To a cat (excerpt), translated by TC
