Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

With No Punctuation You insist on dealing with my silence making sure no one rises to my defense Between the lips of my vulva scented flowers open locks to holes that listen to what belongs to me No endless distances no monsters nothing of the low note minced by my voice To be able to sing with amazement to sing with no punctuation or alarm

I won a poetry contest. Yes, I'm the winner of the Spring/Summer 2016 contest at  The Song Is...  I had already been nominated for the 2016  Best of the Net award  by this same journal. The poetry judge was  Catfish McDaris ,   Lynne S. Viti judged prose. "Requiem for Mercedes Sosa" was the winning poem.  Sergio A. Ortiz