I.
With a heavy wound, no longer the rope around the neck
With the empty noose and the long sorrow
That does not beg anymore
That does not beat the worm-eaten bone
Nor the last vision
Nearly unified here
I stand to remember shadows of another time
Moored to docks of the air
I start to remember and I say
Seven words a dull harvest for your cruel memory
Beyond the river
Where the city rests in its bright diving suit
Where I dreamed someday to return
In order to remain myself
Desires are fading away
There remains of me only a vague substance
That no longer names me
No longer containing all the vigor,
The luster of another burning time.
II.
Field of onions
For your sad stroll
With the breeze bordering
Its spiritual leaf
In the furrow of flames
Opening itself
In the crack of the earth
With its bitter fruit
Its heart of air
In the tightened sky
Its fist of miseries
Decanted liquor
Of yellow almonds
Mario Bojórquez (1968) is a poet, editor and translator from Mexico with numerous publications in poetry, translation (from Portugues to Spanish) and anthologies. He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores and has been honored with national and international awards including the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize (2007), the Clemencia Isaura National Poetry Prize (1995), the Arts Prize of Literary Essay José Revueltas in 2010 and the Alhambra Prize of American Poetry in 2012. He is co-founder of the electronic literature magazine Círculo de Poesía.
George Eklund (1953) is professor emeritus at Morehead State University. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Epoch, The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New Ohio Review, The North American Review, Rio Grande Review, Sycamore Review and Willow Springs. His publications include two full length collections, The Island Blade (ABZ Press 2011) and Each Breath I Cannot Hold (Wind Publications 2011), and a chapbook from Finishing Line Press in 2012, Wanting To Be an Element. He is currently publishing translations of contemporary Latin American poets.