In Each Look Our Years
that’s it
that I walked into the cafe
and in the noise and crowd
we met
and that I saw
what it was I’d been
in what it was
I saw
that in our skin
in the decade of our skin
is what began
before we knew
and that time before
with this time now
is nothing
waiting to start again
Credit
Copyright © 2007 by Edwin Torres. “In Each Look Our Years” was originally published in In the Function of External Circumstances (Nightboat Books, 2007). Reprinted with permission of the author.
Author
Edwin Torres
Edwin Torres is a bilingual, New York-based poet who's a self-proclaimed "lingualisualist" whose work is "rooted in the languages of sight and sound.” He is the author of multiple books of poetry, including Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press, 2014), One Night: Poems for the Sleepy (Red Glass Books, 2012), and Yes Thing No Thing (Roof Books, 2010), among others.
He is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the DIA Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the Kimmel Arts Center, and the New York Foundation of the Arts, among others, and has performed his poems worldwide.
Date Published: 2017-11-16
Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/each-look-our-years