telephone
“I believe the conservation of the species is maintained because of this small latent transmitting device, which has courteously made love punctual…” By Hilda Mundy, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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caligula
“It’s the hour you hate most,/ when afternoon falls/ as if collapsed from the roof…” By Óscar Cerruto, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira
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twenty-seven of us
“The night bled/ like the vibrant blade of a sharp dagger/ and we were in the smoke of fantastic fires/ the terrifying vision of an infernal mind…” By Raúl Otero Reiche, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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underground population
“I want to die beneath the earth/ in eternal dialogue with the salts, my hair roots/ my words clay…” By Edmundo Camargo, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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vote of silence
“Forgive me,/ I think they have changed me in making me more a man…” By Pedro Shimose, translated from Spanish by Michael Sisson.
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postmodern ballad
“I write you this poem/ as a protest/ of love that refuses/ to consent to indifference.” By Eduardo Mitre, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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for a mythology of minor things
“Like one who wrinkles an old shirt/ &/ Goes about naked in the old cinemas/ Death/ Walks with crutches…” By Humberto Quino, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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to a dinner guest
“In her gaze, shy heaven, there appeared divorce,/ exhausted sweetness, pleasure that despairs.” By Juan Cristobál Maclean, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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the city
“City of labyrinths,/ I listen to you:/ alone in the depths…” By Blanca Wiethüchter, translated from Spanish by Jessica Sequeira.
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Simen ♥ Agate
“…tightly clicked/ in a land of wide places –/ come around, come here.” Weekend Poem, by Phoebe Power.
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