ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

LONTANANZAS

I built you up

From diaphanous drops

That clarify

The thin contour

Of the wind’s arms.

Those dancing

Upon my face,

Hold up and excuse

The rising of

Light stealth birds

On the horizon.

Sky wings bearing

Fragrant

Polyphonic aromas,

Diluting moist loams

In vetiver and bergamot,

Disseminated

Over your body’s

Drought.

I envision you

In my silent

Barren palms,

As drops

Upon my river;

Ecstatic the open sea

Conspires,

Flows against formed

Verbal tide,

In ivy language.

Warp naked

Fanciful voices,

Dawning deep

Inside my skin,

Cracking

Desire’s opacity.

I built you up!

While it rains.

© Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

Translated by:  Alaric Gutiérrez

LOVERS

Longing mitigates

The drunken night,

Treasuring the imprint

Abolished by desire

That breaks us

And brings together,

Intrinsic fire

Of profane verses

Under the intrigue

Of shadows.

Materiality keeps

Our bodies tied up to

The lunar instant

Of balsamic ether,

Burning desires

Falling apart

Evaporating

The mossy seduction

Of having the absolute void.

You’re dust in the breeze

Of my conscious being,

Bringing delightful

And melodic essences

Inside hollow fruit trees

Of worn out headings.

Imprecise and sharp legend

Of upcoming evenings,

Barking at the sap sight.

Derange me, seduce me, drive me.

Like a consonant plunging

Upon the rhetorical memory,

Dialect upsetting and chaining us up

Beyond our hands.

Exhalation,

Dementia without sanity

Defining my earthly Nirvana,

Meanwhile, I belong to you

Under the remote

Silence glass…

By rubbing

Your timely spike.

©Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

Translated by:  Alaric Gutiérrez

THE PATH OF YOUR STEPS

Naked and lurking

Tenderness

At the riverbank,

A kiss clinging on

As a vine

And climbing

Through the sap

Of my branches.

I spy on the night

In your thistles,

Adjacent meridians

In the nectar

Of your Nile.

Of  all your summers

Emanate and disappear

Crepuscular fragments,

Frosts decorate

The melodic chant

Of orioles

And blackbirds.

I invent you and lose you

In the zephyr choleric notes,

The sublime lightness

Makes silence thunder up.

Dissolving my dawns

In the hustle of memory,

Fire against the light

Of the stranger and nubile

Torso of your body.

You rain and crumble

Over my fragrant touch,

Blast that exalts

The sound of the stones

Building up my roads,

Long gone

And desolated landscapes

Blooming today

Behind your own steps.

TRANSLATED BY: ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ

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ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

ALICIA  MINJAREZ  RAMÍREZ: Multi-awarded poetess, writer, singer, translator, editor, university professor, broadcast radio and |T.V. She was born in Tijuana Baja California, Mexico. Her poems have been translated into: English, French, Taiwanese, Albanian, Cameroonian, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian and Polish. And published in more than 50 International Anthologies, journals and magazines around the world.