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Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
A Rhyme for Halloween
Tonight I light the candles of my eyes in the lee
And swing down this branch full of red leaves.
Yellow moon, skull and spine of the hare, . . .
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
At Twilight on the Road to Sogamoso
The sun is beginning to go down
over a field of yellow onions. The edges
of the clouds are almost pink, and at this hour . . .
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
[Grayscale breath on a fluid...]
Grayscale breath on a fluid
field, with lo-fi
                 rainpatter—petrol blue—, . . .
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
[Begins in interruption...]
Begins in interruption:
an ambulance bell at the center
. . .
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
Several Altitudes of Not Talking
You are part of other people but not
like them. You live in a little wooden box
and wake up with your face . . .
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
Today there has been so much talk of things exploding
into other things, so much that we all become curious, that we
all run outside into the hot streets . . .
Iraira Cedillo Mar 2014
My mother the hard *****
Chinese woman 23 years
in this country . . .
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