Mistranslation of Dante’s Inferno

Published on Columbia Journal, August 2017

A Mistranslation of Dante’s Inferno

amidst walk our life
I discovered myself through a dark wood
for the True path was lost

when to speak is hard
full trees strong dense unquantifiable
renew thought renews my fear

little more bitter death
but to try the good out I search
I speak of other things seen

Columbia Journal: “MISTRANSLATION OF DANTE’S INFERNO”

Impicture

impicture

is it most unclear whether one or the other is better?

let Us try again.

rooted

in the Spanish earth

i find him moldering

beneath a pine slat

as if someone recently moved the body

and he clawed to life

:DUENDE:

imp word creature

who ended dead dude

ended homophonic

and we decided idoled

and thus it became

both ends burning

their ro(o)ts

better?

Published in Verde Que Te Quiero Verde, 2017

Poems after Federico García Lorca

Four Poems by Lorca

Four Poems

Published in The Adirondack Review, 2017

Sleepwalker’s Ballad

By Federico García Lorca

green I want you green

green wind green branches

The boat about the sea

And the horse on the mountain.

With her shadow at her waist,

She dreams on her railing,

green flesh green hair

With eyes of cold silver.

green I want you green

Beneath the gypsy moon,

Some things are watching her

And she cannot watch them.

Continued in The Adirondack Review

with “Narcissus”, “Nueva York: Office and Denunciation”, and “Adam”