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Thursday, December 5, 2019

LA CASA DE CAMPO





       NOTA DEL AUTOR:  El poema está escrito en verso libre compuesto 
       para sugerir la seriedad con la que se asocia el verso endecasilábico.  


       La oscuridad del campo nos envuelve; 
       en la mesa, la lámpara encendida 
       alumbra nuestras frentes; se desplazan
       sombras indistintas en las paredes.        
     
       A nuestra espalda se empina la mole 
       caliginosa del bosque.  Tras ella
       se remontan las cumbres de la sierra,
       alturas brutas de dioses sin nombres.   

       Las voces tranquilas de gente buena
       susurran en suave conversación,
       pero la llama clara del quinqué
       me deslumbra, y al rato paso afuera,

       al sereno de la sombra del monte. 
       Ya no se ve la costa.  Porto brilla, 
       a lo lejos, como una estrella rota
       en las orillas negras de la noche.
















       Hasta acá apenas llega
       el sordo rugir de la ciudad,
       inextinguible hoguera
       de almas que no pueden descansar.  

       Entre la hierba larga y la maleza 
       muere la brisa sobre la montaña.  
                                 
       Miro las constelaciones vacías
       que giran por las simas de los cielos,
       y me abandono al silencio de Dios,                 
       que es el Dios del silencio.   





          Reunidos alrededor de la mesa, de noche:
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          Silueta de un hombre:
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Sunday, November 3, 2019

THE BEST OF IT IS NOT RAP


       Okay . . . so why are your lines 
       trés wry and fey?  Trying
       to keep up, we’re like
       kids riding rodeo
       sheep.  A buck and a kick
       do the trick, and we’re
       flying, right into deep
       sheep slick.  So why 
       dont you just say  
       why, okay, Ryan?



Thursday, October 3, 2019

DHARMA (Originally titled “KARMA”)

No.  I will not consent to return again, 
fooled by a curiosity worse than lewd,
to be sucked through a sweaty pucker into a womb, 
then dropped like a collop into the same old trap again—
So many years of limping pain, frustration, 
humiliation, bullying, shame— 

No, not even if offered as consolation
to race naked in the returning surf, among brothers again
to bathe, to play, to wrestle, ... and to love 
the beautiful bodies of young men  

No.  No.  Desire is pain.  










Wednesday, September 11, 2019

SEPTEMBER SNOW



I noticed it was snowing, dirty snow,
big, fat flakes drifting slowly down.
I was not surprised, although it wasn’t cold—
such strange things have been known 
to happen.  Now I was dreaming, 
I was dancing in the snow, head thrown 
back, arms out, hands open 
to catch the flakes that floated down,
warm and soft on my fingers
like soft, greasy ashes.  And now 
we were running and screaming. . . .

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Monday, August 5, 2019

LA NOCHE

A solas en el patio 
       silencioso me siento. 
La noche crece negra 
       como un inmenso almendro, 
con la copa encorvada 
       para abrigar al mundo. 
El árbol se desdobla, 
       se abren miles de flores. 
Blancas y diminutas 
       traspasan el negror. 
El patio vive y vibra, 
       pulsa con la energía 
de soles y de estrellas. 
       Siento en mi alrededor 
la vida de las plantas, 
       la respiración muda, 
el estremecimiento 
       secreto de las hojas, 
las puntas finas, húmedas, 
       un derroche de amor. 
Estremeciéndome entro
       en los tallos oscuros, 
me disperso en las ramas 
       intrincadas, me exhalo 
por las hojas abiertas 
       a la noche estrellada. 
En el negror profundo, 
       como una estrella oscura 
asciendo la honda noche. 




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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

AFTER THE EXILE


After our exile from that holy place,
It seemed that every stony, thorn-bound path
Led back to the high wall and flame of wrath
Implacably convicting us of sin.

And one day as I wandered, questioning
The reason for the Tempter and the Tree,
If knowledge were so high a good, and we
Created to aspire, who was at fault

That we had fallen? Could it be, the thought
Of our being like Him had called forth His ire,
Caused our expulsion by the sword of fire?
Would nothing ever bring Him to relent?

Each day I saw new errors to repent:
Self-centeredness, demanding from each face
An image of itself; and new disgrace, 
How favor shown to Abel bred Cains hate. . . .

Again I saw the Angel at the Gate.
His face shone like the Sun. I stopped, in doubt
Whether to go or stay. Then he held out
His arms to me and said, “May I come in?”

And I was opened to receive Gods grace.    

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