Trabajando/Working Through – Daniel José Gaztambide Nuñez, PsyD

 

 

Techo blanco y con puntitos

Pecho expandiéndo al ritmo de un corazón roto

Palabras incoherentes

Explotando con magia y furia

Del mas alla, nace

Una voz

“Como así?”

Corazón cambia de ritmo

Pecho en paz

Cada palabra encuentra su hogar

 

White, dotted ceiling

Chest expanding to the rhythm of a broken heart

Incoherent words

Exploding with magic and fury

From beyond, a voice

Is born

“How so?”

Heart changes rhythm

Chest at peace

Each word finds its home

 

 

Daniel José Gaztambide Nuñez, PsyD, is an analytic candidate at NYU PostDoc and assistant director of clinical training in the Department of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, and. He is the author of A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology. His research as director of the Frantz Fanon Lab focuses on psychoanalysis, colonial mentality, and race in the Caribbean. Most recently, he was the recipient of an APA presidential citation for his work as part of the Taskforce on the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination and Hate, and a Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellowship. He is a spoken word artist in the Nuyorican poetry scene, and a member of the Puerto Rican poetry troupe, the Titere Poets. He is the first awardee of the Miranda Family Fellowship at NYU.

Photo credit: Herman Pauccara – Pexcels