1.
Swallows crown the afternoon.
Your eyes reflected on a silver spoon
make you sob.
You take pictures of the sun.
A woman with whose voice
you fell in love
has been waiting for years.
Amorous cats descend to their alley.
A butcher wanders in the forest
under the eyeful watch of vultures.
A cop sails off on a boat full of rats.
A white monkey swims a white river.
The shadow of a blind man drowns.
All the streetlights tumble in the rain.
Two lovers go on kissing long
after their mouths begin to bleed.
And what do the nervous leaves know?
All morning long a spider waited
in a vineyard and no one came.
A truck hauled away all the drunks.
Three kids, bleeding at the elbows
and looking for gold coins,
rip open the belly of a goat.
Bats fly off with the hermit’s eyes.
A rapist sits still in the park.
A boy is grinning from inside
the foggy windows of your car.
2.
One day you want to cover
the arch of the sky
the way a raven does,
the way a finger can.
Then you are reduced to an itch
that moves around your chest.
Today you are your soul,
a misprint in a book
no one will open anymore.
You shout at the ears of God,
but they are sewn shut
with a silk thread
that leads to a tired heart.
The day leaned against
the door for a while,
then on your hand,
and it was gone.
This sky has been watching
you, going off to work,
coming home, not strong,
nor tired, nor anything.
It listened to your arguments
patiently, bored, or deaf,
a blackened orange
suspended
in the frozen air.
The first stars appear,
and you are their shepherd
leading them to the troughs
of the coming dawn.
You are leaving home,
clumps of dirt
under your shoes.
The geranium
that exploded this morning
in a burst of laughter
goes away quietly too
under a dry climate
of stars.
(Ernesto Trejo)
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