La Pluma (Poem)
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Para iniciar una semana con buen ánimo en estos tiempos difíciles, aquí un poema de Alexandra Lytton Regalado quien se encuentra de visita en Washington desde El Salvador. | To start a week in good spirits during these difficult times, here is a poem by Alexandra Lytton Regalado who is visiting Washington from El Salvador.
Maya discovers her hands
in a ribbon of current
My daughter’s baptismal gown, trimmed with needle lace
now fronds writing the wind
Made without foundation—punto in aria
now sails in a gust
Work of a woman’s hands, her spine bent over
these clever marionettes
swipe the air before her eyes
A grid-work of flowers, vines, butterflies
she touches
one hand with the other
Silk threads woven by a single needle.
holds it clasped
In the quartz and copper-colored light
like a fat white dove
A woman hunches over—is it sadness,
even coos at it
What burden, what is she trying to piece
Together, as if divined from the air?
finds herself
more flesh than angel.
Alexandra Lytton Regalado’s poetry collection, Matria, is the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). She is a Canto Mundo fellow and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2018, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction among others. Co-founder of Kalina press, Alexandra is author, editor, and/or translator of more than ten Central American-themed books. She lives in San Salvador and serves as president of the board of directors of the El Salvador Museum of Art. For more info visit: www.alexandralyttonregalado.com
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