Status Updates From Intimacies: Poems of Love

“Of everything I have seen,
it’s you I want to go on seeing;
of everything I’ve touched,
it’s your flesh I want to go on touching.
I love your orange laughter.
I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.

What am I to do, love, loved one?
I don’t know how others love
or how people loved in the past.
I live, watching you, loving you.
Being in love is my nature.”

“I’m leaving you here
all I had, all I didn’t have,
all I am, all I am not.
My love is a child crying,
reluctant to leave your arms,
I leave it to you for ever —
you are my chosen one.”

I loved that this had the Spanish and English side by side. The poems were beautiful in English, but they were just so much more exquisite in Spanish.

Poetry to savor and roll around on your tongue:


"...Eres para mí la más bella,
la mas tatuada por el viento,
como un arbolito del sur,
como un avellano en agosto,
eres para mí suculenta
como una pandería,
es de tierra tu corazón
pero tus manos son celestes...."