mortal questions

mortal_questions

Who chases the myth
while drenched
in the blood
of the primordial hunt?

Who has placed a hyphen
between Sky and I
to sense the aura
of a blue atmosphere
as a newer skin?

Who will concentrate
all language
into one singular word
that falls heavy
             as a meteorite
into the sands
of nocturnal desert?

Who will endlessly
double the depth
of one earth suspended
in the night?

Who will reduce
consciousness
to a milligram
of image?

Who has made
a door from odor
through which memory
walks out
into open land?

Who will unearth
mankind and root
childhood back
in the curl
    of a cloud?

Who will find
this poem hidden
from the glare of knowledge
waiting in the shadows
of their touch?

Contemporary Poetry

desvelado

origen

Anocheció
y fue nacimiento,
el rojo me rozó
con su ligero grueso,
palpitando las estrellas
corren como sangre
en el tiempo,
siempre
transitó el universo
por fuera de mi ventana,
cargado de novela
e ímpetu iridiscente,

noté que mis ojos
se me escaparon
como dos canicas
para caer en el fondo
del origen.

Poesía Contemporánea

sugar of lung

suffer

I’ve translated the sugar
of lung and by mist
the meaning of language
is a family of pauses
appearances that crawl
like incense between crevices
of hard barrier,
but then there is truth
which as a fence
we jump to land
on barbarous scenes of fading,
where we hang the moon
in our hollow cavity
and there walk in thick groups
of solitary breaths,
aiming to cut the tragedy
in two great halves
with the rim of suffer.

Contemporary Poetry

across a boundless place

boundless_place

One day I took a look and there was a place. In that black density a lace began to arrange memory like a bow around every name that I remember, back then, throwing outside, out there, like small smooth stones. I craved to eat the clouds in the mud of my imagination; I was a child in rags (how many clouds had transpired) before I learnt a world was a word capable of eclipsing all the things of the world. So I craved to forget every flavor of sound to rediscover suddenly the purple of music under the noon of my eye. (Always I’ve been making things so real and why is there only an ugly street, this very instant). I remember softening the sky and making a drum in unison with horizon. I won’t claim here that I’ve invented the universe just because I’ve made giant centuries sleep in my mad silence. I’ve only borrowed infant atoms of late. Perhaps I’ve always been alone preexisting like a submarine below the surface of time. I’ve been waiting like a peculiar magnet unnoticed in the abyss. Perhaps this here is not an ugly street but a vein carrying the fatality of the dream to a new pulsation. Perhaps this reverie is not a quick line scrawled on another page of earth. I see now that the poet has started to unearth his own visions beneath the thirst of trees. I see him proudly unintelligible against all the violence of thought. I see now that the poet still craves the flesh of the clouds and has made brightness a bridge across a boundless place.

Contemporary Poetry

Nadie lee un poema

poesia_muerte

Nadie
lee un poema
para calcular
cuantos minutos
le quedan por
vivir.

Nadie agarra
una estrofa
y se la amarra
como una corbata
para ir a casarse
con la luna.

Nadie
entiende que la metáfora
es un puente, sino ya
habríamos cruzado
la noche con sus mil
peces de luz.

Nadie
le abre los ojos
al verso,
para no quedarse
ciego con el fulgor
de su dolor.

Nadie
lee un poema
para no morir
sabiendo que no
sabía nada.

 

 

Poesía Contemporánea

desde una estrella

suicidio desde una estrella

El mundo se ha hecho invisible
y lo veía venir.
Por eso he dejado esta nota
flotando en el aire.
Y no se asusten,
que fue mi intención
quedar en péndulo
cuando me ahorqué
con una soga
atada desde la esfera
de una antigua   estrella.

 

 

Poesía Contemporánea