Decreación
Sleepchains Who can sleep when she— hundreds of miles away I feel that vast breath fan her restless decks. Cicatrice by cicatrice all the links rattle once. Here we go…
Literature /literatura
Poetry /poesía
Three Poems
TRES POEMAS
SANDS OF SILENCE I carry deserts within, the warm sands of silence. Edmond Jabès 1. I hold the memory of a name on the tip of my tongue, which is…
CALIFORNIA APPLES
Manzanas de California
Translated by Kristin Dykstra A California apple costs thirty centavos. A tiny apple that arrived in our port as contraband. It fits inside a fist. (I give it to my…
You Just Don’t Talk About It
Open as the leaf as the sidewalk as the tear & the iris as the casket upon visitation as the door when the twig school opens as the tongue that…
Decir otro lugar
Coopera conmigo y aplaza todas las palabras que no digan nada. Pon sobre esta superficie las más logradas, retén tu silencio que ahora mismo estoy escarbando mi lengua para decirte…
Tierra
San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala TV reporter: a black suit bites into him at the shoulders, arms and waist. Stalk of the microphone sways between the hospital bed pillow of the…
La arena del silencio
Llevo dentro de mí los desiertos, la arena caliente del silencio. Edmond Jabès 1. Tengo el recuerdo de un nombre en la punta de la lengua, por eso exploro las…
Two Poems
English translation by Tanya Huntington Jonah The word fish wriggles its way deep into the river. And now, on my command, it bites into another fish there, in the dark.…
Dos poemas
pandemia pero llegó tu waterloo: y el mío: 1980: rock hudson estremece la tevé —las redes sociales eran cosa del futuro— y, como todo santo cuando se le necesita, tú…
Itinerary of Forgetting
Itinerario del olvido
Translated by LAWRENCE SCHIMEL One. This is the last day which, resigned, I bury in the sterile ground of an island to which I am forever tied. Tomorrow I must…
Three Poems Under Quarantine
Tres poemas desde la cuarentena
WHILE THE LAWS OF PHYSICS REMAIN INTACT there are aspects of reality hammered out daily hammered into our brains unnaturally alarms sounded before dawn and so we never awaken rather…
Five Poems
Cinco poemas
Translation by Melanie Márquez Adams MARROW Havana reverberates, resists, bursting through the cobblestones. Light years, I sense a galaxy of infant stars. …
