Meet Hemisferio Cuir Contributor: Yasón Serra (Honduras)
- letraslatinasblog2
- Apr 29
- 2 min read
Oveja
Elígeme a mí, amado mío,
rasga mis vestidos lácteos
haz de mi cuerpo perverso
la lumbre
del camino postrero
bésame con el sueño que no acaba
úngeme con el silencio virginal
del delito.
Aunque no merezca de vos
ya más nada.
Lamb
Choose me, my beloved,
tear my milky clothes
make my perverse body
the fire
of the last road
kiss me with the dream that does not end
anoint me with the virginal silence
of crime.
Even if I don’t deserve from you
anything more.
Tell us more about yourself and your poetry.
I love nostalgia, though my relationship with it is deeply conflicted. There is an inevitable tension between what is gone and what lingers; we are tied to each other. From that conflict, my name was also born, as a reminder that beyond the past, I must learn to inhabit the present, and out of anxiety, to intuit what is to come.
In Honduras, when time is running away from us, we tend to say with urgency, "It's already three in the afternoon". That everyday expression contains a rush that also seeps into my writing. My name is legally Jasson, but I grew up amidst multiple attempts to pronounce my name, and Yasón was one of them. It is one of many names others gave me without knowing that, as I grew up, I would choose to have many more names. Today I am Jasson, I am Yasón, I am Erático.
And that multiplicity is the heart of my poetry: a meeting place between my different selves - my religious self, my queer self, my academic self. Poetry is where all these voices intersect, confront and recognise each other. It is my catharsis, my way of reconciling with every part of myself and the time passing through me.
Who are some of your favourite poets from your country?
Yasón Serra (b Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1996) is a homoerotic artist, also known as Erático, and a university teacher and writer. Among his books are Principio de antítesis (2022) and Anhedonias (2023). His social media handles are @yasonserra / @eratic00. He recently won the literary residency ‘Habitación propia’ in A Coruña, Spain.
