An Animal Resembling Desire
Under an undecided bird
the day whines about orphanhoods,
clouds of absence hurt
a dark, putrid silence.
One by one the city awakens
its dead under a tired sky
to offer the waters
of its most recent words.
An animal resembling desire
extends laborious wings to petrify
the only tree standing.
Under fear’s silhouette
infancy picks up its waist
and places it on a stone blind wall.
Under desperation leaves
a god made of solitudes
forces the clouds
to rain punishments
and transform boulders
into jaguars.
The Last Threshold
The promise to return
to the place where life began
Failure, to be banished
from an endless happiness
Shadows that wandered
the desert carrying their own past
A leaf-storm-fear
thrown to the felines of night
A beggar’s desire going door
to door and sitting on the steps
of the last threshold
to discuss his ragged loneliness
his bones, a premonition
of the mirror where death calls
The indelible imprint of pain
and undaunted scars
A history of humiliating executioners
and false fabulists
The unsatisfied thirst of gods
who bully us with their vengeance
and a tree who in its old age
only nests birds of prey
The roof
place where hell burns endlessly,
where we cure loneliness.
Where men kiss each other
and from their mouths gush
red rays that bristle legs.
Six walls hangout like heads
that swell in size when it rains.
Where survivors laugh
while the voice of an angry boombox
blasts. On those 2 x 6 walls
I treasured life like a trained bird,
filled my hands with its blood,
loved a man while dancing.
He loved me back
between unnumbered glasses
of Dom Perignon.