Poesía Moderna

Feeding the worm
that lives inside
having stuffed it with thoughts
ideals, systems of philosophy,
eschatological speculations,
until it grew so large
to eclipse the sun, the moon,
the mountains, the town, the cars,
the flowers and the dirt
it grew beyond measure
did it deserve to be feed
the pie of beauty
the pudding of truth –
this worm has left
my body and took with it
all my emotions and desires
it roams freely
children point their little yellow fingers
insatiable it has begun to devour
the arts, the sciences, religions, presidents, continents
even the élan vital of destiny: chance
the universe is its next craving
but it will not stop there
it is hungry for infinity
for the coarse meat of eternity
and ultimately the crust of nothingness
that encompasses all of reality itself;
this children’s poem
will too be eaten
to remain inside the primeval gut of the worm
shifting forms buried under undigested elements
earth wind fire water shadows constellations
everything revolves in the undifferentiated ooze
the words of this poem
will be so far apart of each other
there’ll be layers of love sorrow ecstasy
tears silence in between them

children
nothing will survive

because the worm
will eat itself
one day.

Nihilistic Poetry

Now that the entire world
has retreated to a thaw
now that from a rooftop
I see a raw galaxy dangling
from the beak of a bird
now that the earth
is a great rippling mantle
like a set of loose hair in a golden head
now that the entire world
as soft and pliable as moist leaf of tobacco
now that the planet is flotsam
drifting in the viscous current of sensation

now
we can sleep
in its academy of colors
now
we immerse our heads
in the surrounding cradling
dream

Nihilistic Poetry

We are table
glass on the table
glass ejaculating shadow
on the table
and light on the table
light that rises like smoke
from the table
smoke leaving the cigarette butt
that had died on the table
mist ascending from the table
to the light bulb
reaching the spark
that illumined the table
the judgment
the judgment upon table
we are all but the table
the lonely wisp of nothingness
that our table bears
like skin and vein
that remain on the table
we are this
cold and narrow
edge of table.

Nihilistic Poetry

peeling off the whiteness
of stream
of consciousness

washing it
with the sterile lore
of silence

preserving its restlessness
in the hermetic jar
of time

feeding it the shadow
of leaves

the crumbs of wind
that I find

warming it
with the thick songs
of essence

talking to it
with the vowels
of night and day

loving it
despite
the shapeless ache
it leaves in my
heart

Nihilistic Poetry

encuéntrame
sin aire
en una cláusula de mármol
con la luz amarrada
en los hierros amargos del alma
encuéntrame
en el seno de un portal
comiendo la raíz de la nube
mamando una gota
¿del corazón?
¿del rincón morado de un poema?
con esta lengua
como miel sobre la totalidad
encuéntrame
en el bochorno irreducible del deseo
dibujando círculos
sobre la jaula de la percepción
ahí
encuéntrame
sin remedio
clavando palabras
como besos
en los labios de una noche

encuéntrame

Poesía Moderna

All day
within blank

withdrawn
nothing but the hard
pillows of my thoughts

dead past
hauled by brittle filaments
of memory

the vast tomorrow
so enormous
it’s still uncertain
whether its obese fingers
can fit in my door
and carry me away
into its dark irresolute
secret

a window is opened
a whiff of essential black fate

I’ll sleep with a key over my chest
as if the heart can open its vault

to love
vis-à-vis
the engine
of the unknown

Nihilistic Poetry

La gente muere.
Esperamos nuestro turno.
Seguimos hablando
haciendo grandes gestos
con nuestras manos,
escuchamos un suspiro de música
cuando cruzamos una transitada vía,
comemos un poco de pan
y vemos un reflejo de sol
en la ventana enfrente,
reímos y de los labios
contienen un absurdo deseo
por las tetas y los penes,
en una tarde cualquiera
una hormiga cruza nuestra mesa
en una tarde cualquiera
una gaviota cruza nuestro cielo,
leemos los minutos de un poema
volteamos la cabeza y nos entra
un cansancio profundo
nos dejamos caer como si
cien ángeles de negro rubí
nos sostuvieran en el abismo del sueño.
Son de repente las 8am, hacemos el café.
La gente muerte,
esperamos nuestro turno.

Poesía Moderna

it may be . . .

that nothing can be understood
that trees make waves of transparent flying ointment
birds fluttering wings in atomic curls of laughter
a pebble the size of pain sinking in the stomach
of minds with no hands sculpting the invisible thought
a hole in the ground where we plant a bone
so it blooms like a flower of striped fire
confusing the stars for our parents
and pale dry flakes of sin as our former selves
the hand making shadows on the empty wall of time
where nothing can be changed and we sit
on sidewalks oozing the ancient bubbles of speech
mirroring the breath of drying tobacco fields
and swimming where the saliva twirls in gold desire
because we did not control the first kiss
that enamored us with fatal bliss of birth
that ends in destined death

it may be . . .
that nothing can be understood

Nihilistic Poetry

Te vi coser
con un largo hilo de perfume
todas las estrellas,
ahora las cuelgas
como perlas
desde tu cuello de abismo,
y cuando te quitas
toda tu ropa de nubes
dejas mil soles blancos
colgar sobre tus pezones
negros de aire;
espero
toda la noche
hasta que abras
tu piernas largas como el horizonte
para poder depositar en tu virgen
aurora
todo la esperma
de mi poesía .

Poesía Moderna