I search again
through the just-opened mound
a 1000-piece puzzle
a promise of calm, time without limit
Continue Reading »[Many thanks/muchas gracias to my favorite princess, Kivieta Gutiérrez Suardíaz, for working with me to translate this poem into Spanish.
Beware the enchantment
legends
-of a princess who lives in the bluffs
awaiting the suitor who can withstand all temptation
other than she
waiting still
no lover able to resist
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With at least an hour before sunrise
predawn roosters crow
church bells chime
dogs bark
and I’m pretty sure that’s a mule bellowing
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——-Dedicated to the 116 people laid to rest in the seemingly forgotten Cementerio Israelita, in El Cementerio de San Fernando, Seville, Spain.
It pained me
to know the end
I wanted to ghost you
to let you slip away as if there were nothing more to say
as if your diminution
from once being the center of my world
to no longer being of this world
your disappearance
would leave no visible trace
no fingerprints, marks, lines
not even a dent.
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I walked your banks
determined to reclaim you
from history –
from our story –
make you my own
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