{"id":3223,"date":"2022-02-03T10:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2024-12-11T11:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T19:37:51","slug":"four-poems-jorge-carrera-andrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/four-poems-jorge-carrera-andrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Poems by Jorge Carrera Andrade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four Poems by Jorge Carrera Andrade<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Transformations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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My work is bartered between who windows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to the street, in ten meters of worldly ground,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

every night in a dish of moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and one yawn of empty pitchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All days for me are Mondays:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

always beginning, pacing in circles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

around myself, in the ten meters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

of my rented tomb with its windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I forsake the world for a chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eternal where I close<\/p>\n\n\n\n

my work of bee and ghost<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that changes sighs into money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To buy the sun every Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and keep my country in a closet,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

find love in the stairs,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hold up an umbrella to the lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My word is bartered in a street,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

seller of snouts hung in rows,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

between houses which remember well<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the color of clothes and the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inspectors of windows,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

lost by myself on the street of signs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

everyday is a journey, going and returning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to anywhere, to the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Infinite Trip<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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All begins travel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in distinct ways to their God:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the root walks down the stairs of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The leaves with sighs harness the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The birds use their wings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to reach the zone of eternal lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The slow mineral with invisible steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

crosses the stages of an infinite circle<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that in dust begins and ends in the star,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and to the dust once more returns<\/p>\n\n\n\n

remembering the passing, even dreaming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

its successive lives and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fish speaks to his God in the bubble<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that is a trill in the water,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the shout of an angel, fallen, deprived of his feathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only man keeps the word<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to search for the light<\/p>\n\n\n\n

or to travel to that country that lacks echoes of nothingness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Odd Days<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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There are days that dawn very early<\/p>\n\n\n\n

with your ox eyes and your forehead cloudy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

without remembering your name,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

only mistakes of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Days we can’t find the streets and the dates,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

they refuse us the light’s pure guidance,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we forget the roses and the numbers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the windows show us only gloomy images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lost is the key of treasure,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the watchword of love converted into a ring,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

we struggle with letters and memories,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

confusing the gloom and our garments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Days of sand that make the clocks succumb,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

days when we descend the steps of ash,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

when all the walls of the house deny us<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and we search in vain for the next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three Strophes of Dust<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Your ashy touch wears away all forms,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

brother to the night and the tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You wrap all objects in one anonymous death<\/p>\n\n\n\n

like a return to their original earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climb unseen on walls and galleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clothes pale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on their shaded hangers, and clocks<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cease suddenly to live at your passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Secret emissary of ruins,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you model on matter your terrestrial mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing can escape dark conquest,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

innumerable ally of death.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":25234,"featured_media":975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37569,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/37569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/willowspringsmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}