On a Portrait of Roxolana de Tiziano, Location Unknown, and: Hotel Aspen

61 Gonzalo Millán On a Portrait of Roxolana de Tiziano, Location Unknown ?. You were born twice beauty of the face disappeared, lacuna of the European museums, the second time improved by the mute tongue of the pencil. And twice you suffered death and were lost which of those deaths was the crudest? 2. A paired Náhuatl refrain Ayoppa in piltihua Ayoppa in tlacatihua Neither are you conceived two times Nor twice born. —tr. ESB Hotel Aspen You were here with another man several years before you met me. You were happy together in this room deep as a hole; in the mornings you had to stick your head out the window and turn it toward the sky to figure out what the weather was. Now I am here between the bodies entangled and absent lying on cold sheets wanting to eat the vomit of foxes and fillet of stag. —tr. ESB ...