LONG LISTED FOR THE 2023 GRIFFIN POETRY AWARDS
Coincidences
So when evening came I thought that finally
the end was here, I mean to say that since so many
things occurred inside me, I didn’t need to choose
until the hallway was filled with undefined misery
and only the old servant woman passed mistrustfully
like the blind who collect all the sounds or like
the importance the sick child suddenly gives to dusk
so that since that moment he won’t ever forget; then
the harmonica stopped playing on the above floor
mother got too old
poor kneeling people found the door to another life
but they remained outside like simple talk that has
no wings to break our hearts or if they didn’t notice
the blood as I was playing with my hat; it was only
a simple coincidence like music in the beyond
that seeks what poetry silences on earth.
Libros Libertad 