Sueños, Alejandra María González

Onírico

Sueño campanarios en éxtasis, sueño tu frente que avanza por lejanas provincias cortando rosales.

Sueño tu caballo rindiéndole pleitesía al viento y a ti tomando las riendas con la fuerza del coraje que se instala en tu garganta.

Sueño tu espalda reposada de violines para que escuche tus voces con el color de tu algarabía.

Sueño la espuma de un dios benevolente, la llama imperturbable del próximo prodigio y una bandada de gorriones atraídos por tu vehemencia.

Sueño glorias y ambiciones, noblezas y devociones sagradas, sumisas memorias que se alteran ante tu audacia y se vuelven huracanes.

Sueño hojarascas y ramas para encender, sueño las sombras de tus sombras, señales de una región apagada que da cuenta de tu cruzada y de las barcazas que el tiempo devuelve.

Sueño la espera y la desesperación, la congoja y la inquietud, el grito ancestral de tu caída, la idea infinita del silencio que apabulla, la negación y la muerte.

¿En qué montañas, en qué hoyo negro, en qué ciudad barroca te encontraré?

¿Dónde, desde qué abismo me hablarás con el deseo interminable de esta persecución que no cesa de latir?

Sueño mi cara, mi tiempo y el gesto intenso de apretar los ojos, seguir adentro y habitar esta nebulosa onírica, mientras los inviernos llueven su frialdad y los veranos arden sobre mí.

Ellos

Él se consideraba excéntrico a sus setenta y algo.

Ella erigía su soledad con sus hormonas

a cuestas sacando lustre a sus sesenta y tantos.

Él relamía sus dedos con buen vino y pastas humeantes.

Ella bebía de sus dedos y saboreaba con placer sus artesanales recetas.

( Por cierto ella no era diestra en esos menesteres )

( Por cierto él era avezado en esas lides)

Ella se desnudaba a diario, con total ligereza,

desde el ventrículo izquierdo hasta más abajo del esternón y parte de sus neuronas.

Él removía sus vacilaciones, garabateaba sus miedos

e intentaba besar sus ojos a través del teclado.

Ella arrancaba lejos, inventaba que leía, pero en verdad no se concentraba.

Él la retornaba con el aroma de su parrilla, su amorosa picardía y su apasionado transitar.

Ella traía su copa y hablaban de la huerta que sería imprescindible para colmarlos a ambos.

El la leía atento y fraguaba en su sonrisa una idea delirante.

Ella no quiere subir de talla, él le dice que en la alcoba lo podrán evitar.

Él la escuchó y le cedió la mano.

Ella la tomó y ofreció su frente.

Ellos eran así, ellos se encontraron.

Que arda

Que arda, que sea brasa inextinguible en las gélidas noches de cuerpos sin gloria.

Que lance piedras a los siniestros y arruine cónclaves conspirativos.

Que arrase con la desfachatez de los históricos, con los sillones corruptos y sus redes de peces gordos.

Que arda aún más y que el combate sea salvaje.

Que arda en cada poro encapsulado y que sea rojo sangre.

Que arda desde el color al sonido,

desde la sed al sentido,

desde la línea púrpura que da cobijo hasta la memoria de un ángel.

Que todo arda y la belleza ordene sus intenciones de menos a más,

y despierte a los soles para que caigan escandalosamente sobre el caos, donde Dios es sólo un
vecino.

Beatriz

Ella se triza frente a mi puerta, revolotea en su cubierta cuando las dosis de narcótico se salen de su cauce y amarran su cabello.

Lo hace a diario, sin plano ni proyecto, triza su plato de granos verdes, triza las caléndulas de su huerta, triza el perfume de los gatos y la miel de los trigales.

Vive trizada y desarmada como un globo terráqueo hecho de pampas y glaciares.
Se desliza por el suelo y descomprime patadas, rasguña el mármol, golpea el aire y descuaja los estantes en busca de su veneno.

A veces me arroja a un barrial de ruegos, me araña las piernas con plegarias de espuma, se esconde bajo mi cama y me tiembla el espacio hasta desollarlo.

Y en los momentos en que su /mi niña asoma su carita rosa con el Nilo en sus córneas y los bueyes cargados de bienaventuranzas.

Ella se busca, me busca, me pide un guiso de azafrán y pan de masa madre, me pide un tutú de tafetán y sus zapatillas de punta.

Diluye su esencia en aureolas de algodón y revolotea su cabello bajo la tiara de Cascanueces.
Flota sobre el aroma de la cocina, se desliza a ciegas sobre la jaula de los loros para destronarla, junta carroña para la manada y palos de canela para el cardumen de mariposas que la acompaña.

Ella deja de trizarse por un rato largo y yo la acuno en mi vientre, intentando cruzar la línea del tiempo, donde solo pueda alimentarse de mi placenta.

©Alejandra María González

Alejandra María González Ortega, Santiago de Chile 1968 En 2013 participó en la Antología “12 Poetas Chilenas”, el año 2014 en la Antología Española “Galaxias”, el año 2017 en la Antología Chilena “Debut” y el año 2018 en la Antología Internacional de Poesía feminista IXQUIC. En 2016 se adjudica el Tercer Lugar en el Concurso Internacional de Narrativa y Poesía de Junín ( Buenos Aires ) y el año 2017 el Primer Lugar y dos Menciones Especiales el VIº Concurso Internacional de Poesía de la Sociedad de Escritores Regionales de La Plata, en el año 2019 participa en la Antología “Lluvia de Esperanza” realizada en España y en el año 2021 participa en la Antología chilena “Por una infancia feliz”. Actualmente colabora constantemente con sus textos en la revista digital argentina El último Bastión y trabaja en la edición de su primer libro. Cabe mencionar que casi toda su obra ha publicada en redes sociales principalmente en su perfil de Facebook, desde del año 2015.

Tierra Profunda Rene Ortega

René Ortega utiliza fórmulas de liminalidad para iniciar al espectador a experimentar los misterios del inframundo. Hay una puerta de flores, una escalera de anillos a túneles, afinada con un aro de colores. Todo esto está aquí dentro de los secretos de nuestra tierra. En estos pasos buscamos un centro que ya es un estado completo, un lugar unido por los opuestos e igual a sí mismo. René agrega esquinas al círculo giratorio para crear una faceta para ver otros espacios y otros tiempos.

Mitchell Pluto

TIERRA PROFUNDA

Mi enfoque se enfatiza en la búsqueda de las respuestas transcendentales las problemáticas ecológicas y sociales de la humanidad que enfrentamos actualmente.

Con mis obras pretendo hacer conciencia para situar al ser humano como parte importante de la naturaleza es el volver encontrándose con muestro yo interno y nuestros sentidos que se encuentran en un estado dormido es el volver a mirar y observar como un niño para situarnos en las profundidades de los infinitos subsuelos y planos de tierra imaginaria de mundos micros organismos vivos subterráneos que se transmutan constantemente en máquinas orgánicas voladoras y así te llevo transportándote a mi imaginario poético donde danzan líneas interminables y planos de vida que se juntan y separan al mismo tiempo incansable búsqueda de lo desconocido como las estrellas y la naturaleza transmutando a infinitos planos profundo de colores y formas que voy realizando atreves de esta incansable y cambiante movimiento y sonido de la vida.

Escrito por ©René Ortega

Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel

René Ortega, fue uno de los ganadores en la bienal internacional de arte contemporáneo 3 de octubre de 2022. René ha expuesto obra en Chile y Argentina. Está involucrado en muchos programas de arte cultural que se han relacionado con hospitales, niños y la enseñanza del arte profesionalmente. Su muestra más reciente fue Mental Labyrinths en la galería de arte del Centro Cultural Til Til el 18 de junio de 2022.

“Mi preocupación es la figura humana como sentimiento de estados primitivos e irracionales, cuyo punto principal son las cabezas, pensamiento universal de la creación del hombre y centro del universo. Todo ello condujo a una mutación del lenguaje plástico y pictórico”.

The Paleozoic Clock by Enrique de Santiago

Before to be

Before discriminating the grey hours of the clear

She lived the only and always ufana clarity of my imaginary friend

Time evaporated his muscles and nerves

To leave only impressions on the ether

Featured Image: The clock that survived the paleozoic, acrylic and ink on Fabriano paper 250 gm. 21 x 28 cm. Enrique de Santiago

The dream of the sphinx

Bounded by the breath of time

Rush me to the shore

from the young chimera.

Aurea X-ray, acrylic and ink on Fabriano paper, 21 x 28 cm. Enrique de Santiago

SUM OF OPPORTUNITIES

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to men as it really is: infinite. “

William Blake

And I saw the impossible behind the possible

clinging to its subalternative limit that varies by century

because it responds to the movement of utopian tides

as I look into your eyes from the night glass

there everything was infinite in a tear lodged in your pupil

where she calculated the proper time

to go out into the light of tornadoes

and to the thick porcelain of desire.

Lithic Dreams of an Amazed Void, ink on 300gm Canson paper. 21 x 28 cm.
Enrique de Santiago

Perpendicular Imagination That Peeks Out

after the divine muscle

that bare your pelagic fate

to the one who lies at the feet of his limestone slab.

With every sun 666 mistakes arise

in the belly of the lunar word.

Appearance, ink and piece of paper, on 300 gm Canson paper. 21 x 28 cm. Enrique de Santiago

From the clouds held for centuries

of the air that snakes the knot violates sense

and every dark way that embraces the sound of the world

the maze light line emerges

The Weight of Astral Utopia, acrylic and ink on Fabriano paper 250 gm. 29 x 21 cm. Enrique de Santiago

STARS TOPOGRAPHY

Only from the heart can you touch the sky. (Rumi)

So many times announced about my bone marrow

Bear Minor reduces his trades

while the diligent memory of your laughter

still loathing the twilight

and you will know by the occasional spurs

that had not taken my hands away from that oniric praise

and neither from the damp condition that bounced from his promised halo.

written and Illustrated by ©Enrique De Santiago

Enrique De Santiago. Poet, Artist and Philosopher

Recipes for Horizons by Enrique De Santiago

BLENDED IN THE HOURS
From the place where the abrupt sound of the loica ventures

(1)
the evanescence of your future breath appears
among the vegetation that hides your name
and the blue and gray stones of the primal mystery
there I will drink from the mist that shouts the perpendicular miracle
the only reason at all
that moistens the vegetal belly of the beloved
and shines the incessant desire.
How long does the star take to announce your coming?
or there will be no signs in this already long life of chordates

(2)
while the empty horn waits for its winds
and the opaque flame of sleep leans into oblivion

(1) Signature and unpredictable bird before being (A) bird
in the light areas that are shaken by the wind
mythical and loving red that drew a smile on a child
to open the celestial fields of my pupil
that stirred my early neurotransmitters
before the new cycle (B)
(A) Before being
Before discriminating the gray hours from the clear ones
I inhabited the only and always proud clarity of my imaginary friend
(B) New cycle
My lymph is rocked by the wind
in a theater of new opportunities
those that favor the sweetness of the coots of sober stride
mating in the repetition of miracles
so that the aromas perpetuate my arcane name
and the wandering clouds welcome their polar persistence.
I had the option of ascending to lightning by the cosmic warp
where perhaps the root of the word would have questioned
in coming times of etheric colors
where time would have curved for your eyes
and I would raise your elusive silhouette that lies in the angle of a sunset
irretrievably withers the thaumaturgical vowel (B1)
as simple as a smile
or the collapse of a galaxy
since everything is corresponding
and apparent
with its prodigious lightness (B2)
Like a breath from the forest.

TRAVEL
I went down to the inside of your belly
caressing the rafters of your cosmic cloud
the one that received me with the aroma of the sacred bulbs.
There you were the clear love of wood
and the vegetal wisdom that embraces the ancient verb
when the wind ceases its journey on the shoulders
of the floral liturgy
How many skies inhabit your seed that furrows the seer’s eye?
Is there a niche of smoke that hides your salty voice?
Or simply the root of everything has its home in that mystery.

Each step collects behind you, the daffodils
that inevitably lose your mark
the one that wanders in the deep sands
that in the empire of shadows shelters you.
The messenger has a singular noise
I’ll feel it that dreadful day
I will know then that the epitaphs for the sepulcher arrive,
where nothing else needs to be done,
the metal swallows are an illusory replacement,
since the truths remained in the lock,
and blind to certainties,
I only rest for a few moments
to give me strength in the pilgrim sea,
the one who confuses the epistolary tides
and enjoys seemingly innocuous sacrifices.

I will kiss your lips according to the prophecy

while the breeze will speak the unfinished language

And you will see me with your green eyes

that are not green

are brown

But when you laugh they turn green

and you can draw a different morning

with an approximate solstice

with snakes in the window,

so my useless life becomes useful

because I’m a hobo of solar systems

and I become a wanderer in your body,

as a geographer of your corpse altar

and intruder in your zodiac cenith.

At this moment the end of the thread

talk about the miracle of one day

unrepeatable and mild luck

How strange of an eclipse

under the brief abyssal tides

like ghostly cardamoms approaching

in the deserts of disease

appealing to the late corrections

as it did for millions of years

moss persistence with its epicness

selecting the right humidity

with your organic and fruity hug

in that I put my hope

in what you find in front of your eyes

because I am the one who reads in the borrascas

as I advance toward your directions

who fires violent canines

before those who offend you

to heal that sadness

that leaves the middle of the night when you slip

inevitably and persistently beneath

out the door.

Chandelier in the mornings

this useless armor

And the leaves are blank

soaking up her violently dance

they burn in front of the cabinets of dubious origin.

I hear the birds giving birth to the woods, in the upper angles of a nebula.

At this moment the end of the thread
talk about the miracle of one day
unrepeatable and mild luck
How strange of an eclipse
under the brief abyssal tides
like ghostly cardamoms approaching
in the deserts of disease
appealing to the late corrections
as it did for millions of years
moss persistence with its epicness
selecting the right humidity
with your organic and fruity hug
in that I put my hope
in what you find in front of your eyes
because I am the one who reads in the borrascas
as I advance toward your directions
who fires violent canines
before those who offend you
to heal that sadness
that leaves the middle of the night when you slip
inevitably and persistently beneath
out the door.

written and Illustrated by ©Enrique De Santiago
.

Enrique De Santiago. Poet, Artist and Philosopher

Featured Image: “Beyond the visible world is the non-Euclidean horizon for the dragonfly” acrylic and ink on 250 gm Fabriano paper by Enrique De Santiago

Secret of the Air, Enrique De Santiago

Huge old stars leaning out of the
horizontal cobblestone sheets,
were dictated by an ancient manual of glorious epic forms
where I did not read the cunning locks,
from there fall lights like eagles
what they hang before your pale fortifications
and despite the fact that I descend without air
I cling to the dissected edges of this abyss
walking away from the waves of floral promises
with summer mentions that anoint you.

The amaranth silence rocks the star again
and like the silent lymph
you seek to break beyond the fundamental shell
the one that you came to know in a primitive way
in the sweet stays of belief.

Blows the hydrogen on the leaves
and many cycles are enough for oblivion,
while the trees stand
because they keep their memory in the roots,
to later give shelter to life
vertical.
I am the extended earth,
I still have memories of that
Winter will come without you realizing it.

The specificity of the meander
winding secret of the air
like the grass with its distant star.

written and illustrated by  ©Enrique De Santiago

Artist, Poet
Enrique De Santiago

Victoria Morrison, Seed Wisdom

seed wisdom

Imperfect seeds also germinate,
in a more difficult way; painful stem grows
of the tormented plant
What will this spring concoction be?
that the drug that saves it

has turned into glycine – creamy smell
bittersweet sugar, citrus undertones
in disguised purple.
Wild birds recite verses in the air
Has the song of the mother bird healed her?

Am I really here, watching
the miracle of my fertile land
or is it my mind that imitates
to the dying man who escapes from the barren land
and look for the seed to save the world?

We are the witch poets, the ones with the mark on the face
my trade is the botany of the imperfect
that mutates to the perfect, to see the beauty in the
“not graceful” is to live many lives,
give wisdom to the marrow
spinal cord of the brain
in the seed of the plant.
The noose around the neck is the plant
tied to the cross, slowly
stop breathing and die
And what is life for?
if we don’t manage to be captivated
with all the trees in the world?
the intelligence and wisdom of flowers
is assimilated to the cunning of orphaned children
nameless beautiful bastards,
no handkerchief on the lapel,
they feed on fresh drops;
Those left by loving widows
in the tomb of the dancing moon.

the dead dance
imperfect seeds also flourish,
they love dew in rain
of scarlet evenings
in the smell of smoke, fire and mapacho tobacco.

At night …
the frost settles on the petal of her lip;
nice to freeze like this, being kissed
because of the cold that rests in the water garden.
I caress each stem without prejudice to its appearance
for me, the witch plant is so beautiful
like the scent of the holy white rose.
The twisted and mutilated lemon tree
has taken refuge in the grape vine
red wine lemon

Beneath the cement has grown
blooming dandelion and sphere
healing herb for the healer and sage.
Rescuing damaged seeds is the art
of the reasonable
We are the ancient poets, the ones with the mark on the face
Here I bring roots to decorate your hair.

I resurface in my garden

The wind blows hard, breaks promises.
Catastrophic hiss, fractures everything.
My hand no longer touches your figure;
broken marble.
underwater love nest
stifled desire.
You interrupted my spring
cold storm; wet paper,
You have erased all my love poems.
What do you keep in those pockets
how much do you protect?
the wind asked me
(the burden of my corpse)
Suffering for love deforms my face
-I disappear-.
I neglect my garden, I leave it without dew,
I turn to stone
and I cry my gloomy sadness.
Decay,
I look in the rocks
the calm of my weight.

I’m sorry for you ungrateful root,
when I suffer, I become bad.
I take shelter in the dead trunk,
I am dry firewood
I have no foolish claim
to be perfect for you.
Today I have seen butterfly lilies bloom,
-They talk about rebirth-
There is no end of the world, if the birds
at night they recite poems.
I resurface in my garden, I breathe, I smile.
My flowers, my steps where I recover my voice,
my singing
My silent cat and devoted friend.
imperfect seeds,
we also bloom at dawn.
What do you keep in those pockets
how much do you protect?
the wind asked me.

written by ©Victoria Morrison

Victoria Morrison, Chile 1977, Social worker, poetry and short story writer. Current and active member of SECH (Chilean Writers Society) P.E.N Chile (Poets, essayists and novelists) Published books: A room in hell (2016) Ediciones La Horca Evicted poems (2017) Editorial Ovejas Negras Pupilas de Loco (2020) Rumbos Editores (Her writings are characterized by evoking psychological themes. A lover of nature, the author explains that in each word there is healing; if we assimilate that word to the roots of each plant, just as there are imperfect seeds, there are also humans imperfect; are not the goods called “crooked trees” those that, without water, shade, or fertile soil, continue to breathe on the earth. If the fragile plant resists the cold, the weather, the human flesh sheltered in wool and scarf I should be grateful and silent, listen in silence, the frozen and brave song of the frosty hour

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Pupilas De Loco

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Angel of the Paths Claudia Vila Molina

Texts extracted from the unpublished collection of poems “Ciénaga”

5
21 seconds they play your name
Like a shooting star I count the spaces
To lose myself in the water.

6
We are stopped by the claws of the wind
It’s time to sleep they tell us
we are asleep
Like fugitive silhouettes
We have gone astray.

7
The angel of the paths leads
our light
his hands lengthen the stems of the day
stretch contours.

8
My cloud brings pieces of time closer
I’m gloomy like these worm-eaten plants
Someone else will come from the night
To collect some forgotten landscape.

9
Unexpectedly I open my eyes towards you
I like to hear whispers from the outside line
Your eyes open other doors
And they stay sheltered from the shade.

10
Since that time I remember you
You slowly invade my landscapes
Cold voices bring the threads of that web closer
They surround the absent body.

11
I will open my eyes once more
When the stars dwell in our bodies
And a drop slipped through the skin
Suspend all reefs high.

12
Violet petals fall successively on us
The wind is gone, but the shadow remains
Water slides streams into the night
And the last fire extinguishes my stars.

Poems extracted from the book “Poemas de sur”

House and Plum IV

Stealth remains attentive to all caresses
My kisses keep looking for their route
And I remember the first home, the smells tremble with their laughter
Your look weighs on the eyelids of the imagination
The smells will come to dream of the intimate past
So long without looking back
Memory takes so long
It’s something illusory like the blue roses in the garden
The bridge where I whisper a name
a silhouette arrives tired to tell me
that figure sits in the memories
And I can no longer hide
in the holes of the old walls
but if the shadow is your name
I will continue whispering inside the empty space
and the walls will see their signs in the passing of things
beyond we will continue drawing in the rooms
and they will continue to walk through those passages
where the smoke today flies calmly.

House and plum V

We remember the fog visits us through the window
The green eyes returned to tour our nights
And an old walker passed through the house
We return to the site of the visits
The lamps lulled the traveling sound
Only God listens to us on this winter Friday
And I whisper to you not to repeat things
Our gestures turn off the lights
Fall memories unwrap
That house creaked in the front room
Eyes flickered subject to the crackle
A voice speaks words
I don’t know them anymore, the voice is barely heard
Between the trees you fly to contemplate the past
And the tree held by the foreign night
We are silent to hear each other in this stillness
Sleeping trees glow in the dark
They stretch their arms towards the house in the silence
The wind returns
And we as relic-weary passengers
We take care of the necessary gestures
Things twinkle distrustful of destiny
And only tonight can they blink in regret
Because the trees examine our deep voices
And no one will be able to descend from the passageway
And listen to the unknown song.

written by ©Claudia Vila Molina

Claudia Vila Molina

Writer born in Viña del Mar, Chile. Professor of language and communication at PUCV, poet and literary critic. In 2012, she published her first book, The Invisible Eyes of the Wind. She has published in renowned Chilean and foreign digital media: Babelia (Spain), Letras de Chile (Chile), Triplov and Athena de Portugal, among others. During the year 2017 she participates in the Xaleshem group with poetic texts for the surrealist anthologies: “Composing the illusion” in honor of Ludwig Zeller and “Full Moon”, in honor of Susana Wald. In 2018, she integrates the feminist anthology IXQUIC released both in Europe and in Latin America. In 2020 she participates reviewing the conversation book “Shuffle poetry, Surrealism in Latin America” ​​by Alfonso Peña (Costa Rica), also writes a poetic prose text for the book “Arcano 16, La torre“, by the same author. Likewise, she participates in the book “120 notes of Eros. Written portraits of surrealist women” by Floriano Martins (Brazilian surrealist poet, writer, visual artist and cultural manager). In this year (2021) she publishes her second poetry book Poética de la eroticaamores y desamores by Marciano editores, Santiago.

Featured art photo Peppermint Patty girl Oil, collage Mitchell Pluto 2022

René Ortega Space Map

Inner space, mathematical entities, organic architecture and time doors from the liminal mind of artist René Ortega

From TvoTiltil October 3, 2022

El artista plástico y vecino de Huertos Familiares, René Ortega, resultó uno de los ganadores en la bienal internacional de arte contemporáneo que se desarrolló la semana pasada en Cali Colombia. En el encuentro participaron más de 3000 pinturas y representantes de 15 países y fue trinfador en la categoría de arte abstracto.
La premiación se llevó a cabo en la Universidad Santiago de Cali. Sin duda es el logro y reconocimiento más importante en mi carrera hasta la fecha nos indicó el artista hace instantes.

The plastic artist and neighbor of Huertos Familiares, René Ortega, was one of the winners in the international biennial of contemporary art that took place last week in Cali, Colombia. More than 3,000 paintings and representatives from 15 countries participated in the meeting and it was the winner in the category of abstract art.
The award ceremony was held at the Santiago de Cali University. Without a doubt, it is the most important achievement and recognition in my career to date, the artist told us moments ago.

Rene Fernando Ortega Villarroel

Feature art photo was selected as the award-winning work.

Be a Poem by Lorena Rioseco-Palacios

EVE LIGHT

Life
Death
The sense
What are they worth?
Ties to Life the illusion of being special
unique
That everything hidden will be revealed and bring peace
The fall
God
Crying
The vacuum
the tear
The torture of ignorance.
The worst of wheat
the howling of the cattle
The bark of the stubborn
The silence of the wise
(To whom God gave a name and assigned a Path)
Fall and worry our fate
Our truth the poppy has bloomed
The morphine has deadened the pain
But the power of God gives us the strength to continue… to continue
WHERE?

TWO NOISES

There are only two noises left
In the relaxed silences after the bloodless waters of the cold
There are only two noises left
Between the waking dream
Field where all the faded desires lie
While in his fury the candid blood
born in his look at the dawn
In your breathing relief
After the suns of August and the snows of July

There are only two noises left
My body knows its moment in the soul
Half bite and half die

There are only two noises left

Kisses and debauchery

What will become of so much love?
What will become of so much thirst?

I WILL GET LOST

I will lose myself as those sleepless nights are lost.
As the swallows fly uncertainly in their freedom.
Thus, like the breath drowned in a puddle of muddy tears
between slopes whipped by a harsh winter.
I’ll get lost on those dead end streets
in the midst of a time without stay.
Suffering soul
Deep sorrow of the soul.
I will write her name in crystals in the catacombs where lost loves lie
in each fragment deposited on a paper evicted from oblivion
between puddles of muddy tears on slopes whipped by a harsh winter.

SEPIA

As I watched the roll
roll of your wheels
I rolled off the ledges of cement buildings
There is no time…
Just muzzled birds
who observe my mourning of fluorescent colors
I’m looking for a bloody drink
Lower the face to the bottom
Bottomless background.
soul of lockdowns
absence of soul
there are no greens
SEPIA only…

LONELY

Lonely my autumn sighs pass by
Lonely the night of stars without wicks

Of loves in transit to the corridor of oblivion
Presence of leaves dancing as our love faded
In the middle of our world
always unfinished
Present as the cold through my careless open windows

I live and die
I smile and agonize
I dance and fall on cement floors
in dark spaces
in adornment people

I wonder-

In what unknown wind do I find you?
In what shade of September?
In what square of yesteryear do you walk your nostalgia
your unlived times
your life in my absence
my presence not available
or our words always so petty?

Alone
Alone in the midst of eclipsing clouds
And suns that don’t kill

Alone in the siesta of the day
While the good runs adrift
In that ocean that I never get to cross

What’s up?-that nothing in me is enough
that my passing is the passing of a deaf bird in a night cloak of mirrors?

devoid of me
devoid of all
abandoned by my lyrics
Unable to happen in life
All that I no longer say

FOR A SHIRAZ

ruby meteorites
Imitate God’s Sediment

meaning to the air
that the air I lack

That I need one last sip of a great Syrah
To say, what my lyrics hide

The costume without forgetting
Your body smells like grapes and my body smells like you…

written by ©Lorena Rioseco Palacios

Lorena Rioseco Palacios

10.29.1969, Viña del Mar, Chile

Poet, narrator and reciter of the soul. Social Communicator, law graduate. At the end of 2015 she published her first book of poetry, stories and haiku “Ecos errantes” In 2016 together with 18 Chilean women poets she published her poetic work in the anthology “Mujeres al fin del mundo” (poetic voice of Chilean women), awarded by the Chilean Society of Writers with the “National Reading Fund”, with presence in all National Libraries. In 2017, together with outstanding national poets, he presents his work in the Anthology “Underworld¨ “Blood brother”, “Without borders” (Society of Writers “Without borders”. 2018), “ After poetry, in 2019 and “After Poetry: the festival of poetry”, in 2020 he publishes his work in the International Poetic Anthologies “Palabras Necessarios”, 2021, among others . The artist vigorously participates in literary, poetic, cultural and environmental dissemination activities. She also participates in different poetry forums, where she maintains a constant literary and poetic activism in social networks and groups of poets in America and Europe. In 2021, she publishes her second bilingual poetry book “Sé un poeta (be a poem)”. Since 2017 she is a member of the cultural corporation of writers and artists “Les enfants terribles” and of the Society of Chilean Writers (SECH). Poet invited to the II National Poetry Meeting, 2021.

Featured art photo Scyphomancy Oil on 9inx12in coldpress Mitchell Pluto 2022

Poems from Crazy Pupils by Victoria Morrison

NEW MOON

The
He is more poet than me
He provokes in me the excitement of lucifer
I wish to flee from the three nails of the crucifixion
My wrists don’t hurt so much anymore.
like sore ankles
I don’t limp anymore
The sky turns to water in your presence
I know how to float in flooded graves
mercury nights
Enigma of the writer with hair on his face
Under the moon
Howl with foreign voices

OBEY ME

From afar he looked like a man
It was a shadow in the form of a man
From afar he looked like a poet
It was a form of man
with the voice of a poet
In the light he looked like an angel
In the dark
Repugnant
smelly
I liked
Come! Come my love!
You will see that the reflection of my water is salty
Obey me

MARRIAGE OF THE DEAD

To not blame the men
We got married in the presence of a dead man
reflection
echo
We got married in the presence of a dead man
With my heart in my hand
fevers
cramps
Friend of my heart drowned in poetry
We got married in the presence of a dead man
They dug a grave
We were put
Next to each other
in the wet mud
The crying comes from the empty graves
We got married in the presence of a dead man
The earth has forgiven us

INSOMNIA

We look more beautiful in black
More beautiful than the widows of our enemies
I reversed your death with a love spell
I pierced your flesh
blood stakes
I descended into madness to rescue you
Men
In angel I returned you
You festered like a poem under insomnia
nobody’s Geometry
geometry of gods
We look more beautiful in black
More beautiful than the widows of our enemies.
crazy pupils
Kiss Me!
as if you don’t know me
impregnate me again and again
Throw the stone and hide
I will murder our children in the name of love
bite me
howls

SPECTRAL SILHOUETTE

spectral silhouette
I got tangled up in your hair
It rains in a city full of leaves
yellow autumn
I visit you in the asylum
where reason is lost
I see you insanely talking with the virgin
she doesn’t listen to you
My joints creak like an old door
I dry myself
I am your light you tell me
Cocoon light when I take you in hugs
Under the cold light of fluorescent tubes
We are the closest thing to Michelangelo’s Pietá
I cleanse your drugged body
They have cooked your mouth
I give you to drink the rain
You have aged more than me
One by one I have seen your teeth fall
Even so
I still consider you handsome my sick poet
Smoker
Created in the image and likeness of your mother
We make a blood pact
Crying
Of the wall
The shadow
The smoke from your big hands
Touching me
You hypnotize the voices
The time stops
naked
I walk in the rain
I collect flowers.

The poet Leopoldo María Panero, died last night at 65 years old at the Juan Carlos I Psychiatric Hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where he lived as a boarder in open regime. Panero will be cremated tomorrow at the San Miguel Funeral Home of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where his body will be veiled starting at 2:00 p.m. today. The Corpse of the Poet he will remain in the funeral home for a little over 24 hours, until proceed to incinerate him, something that is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. tomorrow.
Source: ABC.es Culture, July 7, 2014

CRAZY PUPILS

The most ruthless of all souls
She is moved by the song of night crickets
The most brutal of all souls
Talk to the stars on a waning moon
the most despised
Sing with the voice of a nightingale
stays there
hours and hours and hours
hearing the wind
the most ungrateful soul
wash the feet of tramps
Heals hand wounds
Feed the pigeons in the squares
Smile at the children on the street
tour the cemetery
Read verses about the graves
Searching abandoned tombstones
Rest in sealed sepulchers.
Accompanies the silence that passes forgetting
and she gets tired
falls off
she turns off
sleep
Until the dandelions touch her fingers
She can’t open her tired eyelids
crazy’s pupils get bigger
hands are filled with oblivion.

LOST LANGUAGE

Speak
Write poetry
miss the word
Language that bewitches the impure in spirit
Verses saved from the waters
Illegitimate child
Where does my tongue come from?
stumbles on the palate
I inject sounds
speeches
rumors
Where do my eyes come from?
Observe the bubbles of the fish mating
Fertilize under the water of the river.

MOON WOMAN

Moonlit woman
windy sunrise
Fall from the placenta to the volcano
burn the soul
Germinate in root
mutate into bird
poet’s whisper
I belong to the wind
to the reflection of the sea

written by ©Victoria Morrison

Portada de Pupilas de Loco

Controversial, transgressive, provocative, direct, loving, desolate This is the poetry of Victoria Morrison in this
new book: “Crazy Pupils”. the forty four poems that the collection of poems brings together come from the limits
most extreme humans; tenderness and cruelty in hands of the disturbed beauty of some verses that bother
and move, as the voice should be, when you are in the center of the tragedy. Love, madness, death, oblivion, govern the order of this collection of poems. In this scheme, the poetry of Victoria Morrison is a way of exhibiting the torture to which existence subjects us just by breathing.

Dante Cajales Meneses
Cau Cau, Puchuncavi, Chile,
February 2020

Feature art photo Eyes series. Óscar César Mata, Latex and watercolor pencil. Buenos Aires, Argentina.