WHILE, before the end of Aquarius. Poem and Vision by Enrique de Santiago

WHILE

Before the end of Aquarius

the pale shell will come off

Of the petty masts that hold me persistently

to the acid days that I have left and that push me to leave

meanwhile the tears of a burning salamander fall

as the universe cools

while the creator’s belly accelerates

while the verb contracts

to give birth to the next big bang

that brings its reincarnated flame

in a kind of divine reset to understand us better

since in this past centuries it only brought us a great question

that spits out my insignificant and forgotten life

towards another portal that returns me

To embrace the warm name of our unfinished love.

But between the hollow that leaves the universe without answers

nest the bonds of the flesh that impede the…