Dicen que la última llama
se encenderá
en el océano.
En el vientre de la ballena
que hospeda los mitos olvidados,
en su canto,
que conjura el retorno de los dioses.
Pero yo he escondido
unas cerillas
para amparar las llamas
de la tierra.
Tania Ganitsky (Bogota, Colombia, 1986) studied Literature and Philosophy on a graduate level. She has won two national poetry awards in Colombia, one in 2009 and the other in 2014. Her poems have been included in several journals, magazines and anthologies in Latin America and Spain. Dos cuerpos menos, her first collection of poetry, was published in 2015. She is currently finishing a PhD in Philosophy and Literature at The University of Warwick.
