“Florecí”, brilla el pájaro.
La flor brilla: “Volé”.
“Estáis equivocados”.
…Por supuesto, los tres.
¿Bazar: grúa: merced
de cilindros: península:
migala: itinerario
de hiedra: aparador
frondoso? El sanedrín
del pupitre, en la audacia
del tapete: mi aljibe.
David Rosenmann-Taub is a Chilean poet, musician, and artist. Rosenmann-Taub published more than ten volumes of poetry, including Los Surcos Inundados (The Flooded Furrows), La Enredadera del Júbilo (The Vine of Jubilance), Los Despojos del Sol (The Spoils of the Sun), and El Cielo en la Fuente (The Sky in the Fountain). For Los Surcos Inundados, he received the Premio Municipal de Poesía, the Chilean equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
Dr. Kenneth Gorfkle is an author and translator who earned his PhD in Spanish Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2014, specializing in David Rosenmann-Taub’s work. www.kengorfkle-books.com
Folding and refolding origami frogs, extracting the symmetrical veins from leaves, retreating to an imaginary world in his closet: after Teresa walked out the door one July afternoon in 1994,…
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