Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

Constant Craving:  Gogyohka sequence 1. No one, I was alone. Alone painting dusk and dawn. Hush lover, hush. Whisper when you’re distant from the formula of your conceited pride. 2. The visions return without threads or needles, only the echo  of poetic voices— my dead are restless 3. tighten the farewell sash.  Night fog is over. Lover, set aside garlands, the rum and drums. 4. Your legs are wide open; a night of unfinished buses crashing on a golf course. 5. I close my eyes frightened of the empty beer cans, packed in that locked closet. 6. Curl on my lips. Hide from the world in the voice of the wind. Lengthen yourself  in my daydreams. 7. We were accidental tourists caught in the conversation of kisses, pure harmony of arms under the effects of a starry night.

Dormir Hoy es difícil decir cómo me siento.   La amargura se pasea como Juana la loca por mis pupilas y ni el medicamento me salva.  Hoy una hormiga recorre las calles de mi corazón muerta del frio, todo es escarcha, todo es escarcha.  Hoy yo mismo me enterraría vivo en el sue ñ o eterno de tu cama.

Absence  A sigh, and nothing els e, would be enough to drop a dish  and start the hammering of the heart. Tonight, however,  the poet tries to say  what all this absence  means.