María Rosario Clearest of Nights

How to make-up with yourself

after each self break-up?

how to cuddle under a broken wing

the girl of you?

or how to explain

that deep inside the sea

sister wind tries on her dress?

snails leave their homes

when no one is looking

and birds sometimes are afraid to fly

who is going to tell you about

what you only know?

whose fool will tell spider

to spin less?

it turns out that it is possible

to mend the crevices inside yourself

without silk threads and silver spoons

it is possible to tell the truth

and not burn in hell

to win wars without shooting a rifle

and without a rifle to write a poem

Credit

From Killing Marias (Two Sylvias Press, 2017) Copyright © 2017 by Claudia Castro Luna. Used with permission of the author.