I cherish the moment of your
passing like
a flash of lightening
you took to the
great outdoors
your voice still echoes:
"Everything is absolutely
perfect!"
Was it yesterday the young hawks mated above our heads?
Always the earth spoke to us
we listened and moved to the worlds
harmony
--Joyce Pointe
Luna Blue
Estas llamas azules, seductoras
Bailan los siete velos y se extinguen
Contonéanse etéreas, inasibles
Tal como los motivos que te alejan.
Y me alejan
Estas llamas azules, tan azules
Como esta luna llena de cobalto
No alumbran ya mi cuerpo somnoliento
Que se cubrió de sombra a media noche.
Como eclipse
Estas llamas azules no me queman
No parecen de fuego ni de vida
Son más bien llamas frÃas, algo inertes
Rastro nuestro apenas perceptible.
Esta noche.
--Lilyan de la Vega
Blue Moon
These blue, seductive, flames,
They dance the seven veils and die out
They swagger, ethereal, elusive
As the reasons you are away.
And I am away
These blue flames, as blue
As the full cobalt moon
Giving no light and my body sleepy
Covered in shadows at midnight
Eclipsed
These blue flames do not burn me
They do not seem fire, or life.
More like--cold flames, something inert
Our faint trail.
Tonight.
--trans by Deanna Hopper
Funerary Practices 1
I was not aware of the Full Moon
because where I live,
they have a custom of leaving the porch light on overnight
when an apartment empties out
(and they are always emptying out due to people dying or going broke whichever comes first)
like a beacon to local break and enter inscape artists
to come over and steal the sweet nothing that is surely there.
This porch light is like
a 100 katrilliongazillion watt mini moon
that overpowers anything else hanging out in the sky.
It is so bright, that in the morning I have to double check
to make sure it’s sunlight streaming in through the blinds.
--Richard Velez
