I used to live in a small room
with a narrow bed
and a television at my feet.
A mirror hung on the back of the door.
I lived in the order
of its smallness.
I lie here next to you
and feel the distance
from the walls.
If I held you closer
we would fit
onto a narrow bed.
Gabeba Baderoon (Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 1969). Profesor adjunto de Estudios de la Mujer y Estudios Africanos y Afroamericanos en Penn State. Poeta. Entre sus premios, el Daimler Chrysler Award for South African Poetry 2005.