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MARIA MERCÈ MARÇAL (born 1952)

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(Translation by Sam Abrams)

Two teeth have left

a trace of pomegranate

on my breast, when you still

have none to sink

into what is melting away.

MOTTO (Translation by Sam Abrams)

I am grateful to fate for three gifts: to have been born a woman,

from the working class and an oppressed nation.

And the turbid azure of being three times a rebel.