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From “traslaciones” [to sell the wasteland teeming with ghosts]

translated from the Spanish by Urayoán Noel

to sell the wasteland teeming with ghosts
the cavernous tongues hanging in the sun
the flanks skyfacing the braids
they sold the countryside naked and frozen
the red roof of the tabernacle the flag
and an immense tv glued to my history

still early a funeral on the cartoon
network : in whose full darkness i am

subjected linguistic philosophical variant
of the little bones of angela yvonne davis
dislocation of the mississippi body i be
of a stairway on the trembling coast
down south they found the dead bodies of the divers
that we sent to look for my skeleton

we are at best the treasures that sank with the
disheveled ships of civilization

 

 


 

[vender el páramo repleto de fantasmas]

 

vender el páramo repleto de fantasmas
las lenguas rupestres colgadas al sol
los costados cabezalcielo las trenzas
vendieron la campiña desnuda y helada
el techo rojo del sagrario la bandera
y una inmensa tv pegada a mi historia

aún temprano un funeral en el cartoon
network : en cuya plena oscuridad estoy

sujeta lingüística variante filosófica
de los huesitos de angela yvonne davis
dislocación del mississippi cuerpo soy
de una escalera en la costa temblorosa
al sur encontraron muertos los buzos
que enviamos a buscar mi osamenta

somos a lo más tesoros sumergidos con los
desaliñados barcos de la civilización

Copyright © 2026 by Wingston González and Urayoán Noel. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on July 1, 2026, by the Academy of American Poets.

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