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08/19/09

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Born Black

I am Black,

with

Broad-flat nose, thick lips

labios carnosos.

 

My skin become a deceptive

mirror to deflect

signification.

 

My tightly coiled hair,

spreads into a field of vision

of Venus out of whites wonderbread.

 

My sensuous torso with

pendulous breasts

Stand like Tuarget lances.

 

In the home of the brave,

my blackness flies

into territories,

into landscape,

into landlords…

 

My equality reduced,

distorted, contaminated

eliminated, eaten

by words, gazes, gestures

credit history…

 

I am marked by words, by my epidermis…

my skin imprinted with a

flaming carimbo.

 

My physiognomy contaminates

the field of vision

With delusions

of drug dealer,

dealer of dirt,

dealer of credit,

dealer of destruction,

dealer of crime...

 

My equality

devoured

within the phenotype

of racism.

I am black

segregated

by words. Skin, color, records, features…

 

Warriors saturated

with dirt, clay, color, and sudor

expanding into

territories.

 

Papá Ogún

God of the  war

standing against the landscape

with

omnipotent

armor.

 

 Warriors formed with shields of

relámpagos

embroiled with

millions and millions of

broad-flat noses, thick lips.

Azotando like tropical cyclones.

 

The numerous shields

embellished

with tightly coiled hair.

They are impregnate with

blood, dust, and sudor.

 

 In the center of their shields

encrusted with numerous mouths

crying

in accord

igualdad.

 

 ©2001

Container

 

I can listen to my sadness

taking over my body.

 

I can eat my tears

in mutating silence.

 

I can touch the light of

the candle - de la vela-

that penetrates my left

nipple-mi pesón,

 

a container of rosaries,

organic rosewindow.

 

My skin is a container,

un rosario de espasmos-

my skin in transmutation of

agonies.

 

I can listen to my sadness

taking over my body.

 

I can eat my tears

in mutating silence.

 

 ©2001

There is Something

 

 

In the middle of the night

                          I walk

              con piedras

                    between my legs.

 

In the middle of the night

                   I walk with desire

                     between my

                                legs.

 

                    In the middle of desire

                              I walk with the night

                                        between my legs.

 

In the middle of the night

                                 I walk with ashes

                                           between my legs.

 

                    In the middle of the night

                                         I walk with a triangle

                                         between my legs.

 

         In the middle of the night

                              I walk

                  with a death-desire

                             between my legs.

 

© 2001

 

Enjambre de Espejos


A ti que me dejaste
sin luna entre las
pupilas,
mientras yo caminaba
desgreñada con una
preñez sin luz.

A ti con enjambres entre
los labios
mientras yo
náufraga de ausencias
de besos
y luna.

A ti con palabras de espejos
donde se reflejaban
mis senos,
me dejaste despoblada
con reverberaciones
de prometeo sin futuro.

Mientras yo poseída
de neblinas en las pupilas,
yo queriéndote intimo
mientras te alejabas
con espejos repletos de silencios.

© 2002

 Azulosos

 Para el Sabastine de Danticat

 Tu piel azul berenjena

por momentos recorría

 como el agua

suntuosamente gigantesco,

mi rostro marino.

Tu sudor se esponjaba con la humedad del roció

mi inéditas modulaciones,

mis botones forrados de velvet azul,

mientras el libro

 me abandonaba en el tiempo.

 Te marchas desesperado con el alba,

 mis sabanas aun olorosas

con los contorno del libro.

 Y las sensaciones de labios cubistas

que se fugaban entre la escritura.

Tus manos entre la flora de mi piel

sin evitar tus olores

que desbordan

las paginas.

 Te aleja sin nadar en mis cabellos

mientras, lamento los eclipses

azules entre la escritura.

2008

 

Intrusions

To Miguel Laclaustra

Death smells

     in distorted tormented body, gnawed by SIDA.

          The hospital

             kept him a life with a muscular

                         intervention of modern medicine.    

                                     Encrustation of

                                         liquids and millions of translucent

                                              plastic systems

                                                attaching themselves with violent gestures to

                                                   his ombligo, his anus, his mouth….

                                                      Thousands and Thousands

                                                      of plastic tubes of melted medicine 

                                                        and a fleshy anorexic body.

 

                                                            Becoming translucent, the colossal devour bones, flesh, visions, memories….

                                             Our eyes inflamed of tears.

2008

 

Between Salome and Penelope

 Salome waited as Penelope,

but stripped of desires,  undoing the web

of words that codify…

 

While the bed of olive tree unfolds a promise,

Salome deciphers the disguise of seduction…

 

 Penelope without the rose of winds stands

to discover the indigo inflame of mending

with the treats of distance.

 

Salome mending tears;

but lingering the return

 to surpass the  threats of decapitation.

 

 

 

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