Sé que es Mictlantecuhtli quien me arrastra, sé que es él quien me arresta y, con la toga puesta, él mismo ahora me levanta el acta. Una cárcel compacta, el Reclusorio Orientese muestra de repente como el círculo interno de otra cárcel mayor: El barrio es el infierno. Pero peor. Laberinto de feria, el oriente … More Mictlantecuhtli

It’s a brilliant site. I got this from them. Axé. ENTER SHADOWS Then I saw the shadow of the massive cypress tree split the queue of cars in two. How can a neighborhood be as narrow as Ramallah al-Tahta? How can one tree’s shadow be as vast as a border cleaving countries? How can night … More Poem per diem: Enter Shadows

TRANSLATIONa huevo: to be aggressively seduced by an eggay diosito: the small god you thank because your hands existme hicieron ojo: my eyelashes flew one by one like a longing!señora studies: look, a map in the dirt of your mother’s hurtsempacho: you ate cactus until you burst open like a rotten fruittacos de cabeza: quandaries … More TRANSLATION (poem)