SWEET TIME
How sweet time feels when it’s too late
and you don’t have to follow her swinging hips
all the way into your dying imagination
BASKET
You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you, to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
She will spread her wide skirt
and sit down
on a black stone
and your basket will bounce
like a speck in sunlight
on the immense landscape
of her lap.
THE REMOTE
I often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed
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Extraído de Book of Longing, Penguin Books, 2006 | Paper Bag Poetry Review 2023.