Jorge Luis Borges: A un gato / To a cat


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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.




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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