At around this time of year I would usually
start dreaming of girls with shoulder high hair
racing their way into warm summer crossings,
under midnight white skies,
following the shadow of giants ahead
that would never ever fade in the distance.
I stared again into long halcyon lights
shooting straight up from dying cities,
and every street corner turning slowly into the night,
enough time to feel I would yet be missing
another love story this year.
Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 3:21 PM UTC
Through the white, beating Texan heat,
water towers cry out titles
high above the flat land
where kids from the roadside houses
run around in stained tank tops,
dreaming of their own names up there.
The long and burnt grass cuts their ankles
and the dry cement scrapes their feet.
The midday ritual begins in a racing circle
raising dust over the roofs and into the shy afternoon.
Around 5, the roadside families reunite
in front of their houses to watch the daily traffic jam
and observe the variety of faces through the glass windows,
which after a short while do not seem to vary at all.
But today, something else had their full attention.
The sky was never seen this low and the clouds
turned a shade of black
so dark as to be almost green,
so the eldest women on that single row of houses
declared bad omen. The next early morning,
the closest water tower laid gravely against the ground.
Already, a small boy had climbed on top of the tank,
soles bleeding, and waving
his shirt into the wide clear sky.
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Jan 20, 2018
Jan 20, 2018 at 12:53 PM UTC
She tells me about the night that’s young
but it’s been dark for a while and appears
almost yellow and the objects in her room
are too distinguishable yet so different
almost like new objects
in a new room
so she doesn’t feel home
and chokes silently
on the yellow darkness.
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Oct 28, 2017
Oct 28, 2017 at 4:46 PM UTC
A sparkle from afar
over the black ocean line,
and grows bigger
at every wet step.
Evenings she would rip
into the water
and fight the waves
until the waves gave up
and I could figure her out now,
more distinct at every second.
She spoke to me with a composed tone
which would hide something else. There is always
another side to her voice, almost two lines
speaking the same verse. The silky stretch
of water behind mirrored perfectly our shadow.
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Sep 11, 2017
Sep 11, 2017 at 11:08 AM UTC
Only for an instant
can you witness the parting
of the mist over the ocean.
The heavy
pink curtain collapses,
swallowing the wavering shore
in its fumes
divides the sky in separate columns
of gold and silver
in a single sensual gesture;
no existing border could be made out:
The dunes were a few meters
higher! The sky reached out to us
in the shadow of the water lines.
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Jan 8, 2017
Jan 8, 2017 at 2:21 PM UTC
Echoes of long sirens
fade in hushed apartments;
familiar passersby
in the vastness of the night.
Now and only can we hear
the soft winter breathing.
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Jan 6, 2017
Jan 6, 2017 at 12:38 PM UTC
Cars speeding down the intersection
splash gold in the headlights,
every time,
glowing droplets against the dark
falling too slowly to the ground.
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Oct 23, 2016
Oct 23, 2016 at 3:11 PM UTC
The last boats of the evening
whistle secretly across the silver nightwaters
like some lonesome lingering men
expecting their daily last-minute pleasure.
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Jul 7, 2016
Jul 7, 2016 at 12:20 PM UTC
These kids celebrate the life
of the dead street pigeon.
Dark streams down their brown faces,
they intone their private lamentation-
One exposes the corpse
to his little circle, holding it up
the wings stretched out.
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Jul 7, 2016
Jul 7, 2016 at 12:16 PM UTC
From her silent night haven
in the dark orange
ripping clouds,
she walks down
the flashing beach,
waist-deep in the water.
With a long looming gaze,
she chases the voices
from the rain
as I watch her still
silhouette
slowly fade away.
And when my blind eyes
will finally close
between every white urgent streak,
I'll see her smile rise
through the darkness & the dream.
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Jun 30, 2016
Jun 30, 2016 at 1:14 PM UTC