ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

BAKLAVA AND HONEY

Distant contiguous strokes

set up the prayers of Anatolia.

Eclectic fragrant spices

clove, sumac, vanilla and cinnamon

overflowing cornices.

Gold, silver, apple tea,

water pipes, almonds and kapuz

songs of your lineage!

Indigo horizons

melt the earth

of mud and jade

in baklava and honey;

musical odors surround

nocturnal savannas

in the edge of the days.

Bare fingers

on red-berried mistletoe and oaks

require the transcending kiss,

reaching the limits of touch

bluish declining

of our belongings.

As affable Sultan

dressed up with Habiye silk.

Transcribe my dreams

with watercolors of straight lines

to drown the sun within,

in the bowl of my palms.

© Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez

DESERTED VOICES

Mexico.

Cornered breeze

Bursting over

mosses’ silence.

I need to flood and evaporate

Chimeras

In rugged islands.

Silence salty gates

That incinerate my throat,

Nod to water

Disdaining

Its inherent name.

Deserted voices

Sway seconds

Upon the lividness

Of windy branches,

Where clouds

Lack power.

The rain is an allusion

Of green stars,

Ashes are raining

Scorching skylines,

Usurping my voice

In stony

Dust clouds.

Does the air induce scars?

I hear your singlar skin

Darkness of glacial fog

Sketching my roots.

Wounded petals fading away

Wings of swallows.

Ether fragments the sobs.

They grow and decline,

Cypresses

Like snowy jasper,

Smithereens of days…

While the moon shines above us.

© ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez

HORIZON

Silvery squawks

Inspiring wind

Sound smells

Weaving and evocating

Blue mythologies,

Illusory back and forth

Of time.

Neptune dilutes

The slow walk

Of topsails

Upon sand ridges

flooded by foam.

Brief controversy

Dancing the song

Of rocks.

Flowing cosmogonies

Hedgehog delirium

Beyond symbols.

Docile declining

Of waves,

Bastions of light

Refined by thorns.

Wounded sob exploding

Like a scream

Confining its destination

In the throat,

Earth’s helpless breath

Languishing forever,

Like wood

Permeating and transforming

The dilated ocean

Within yourself.

I state your name

Unknown for me

And learn

The burnt

Thick sunset,

Circumspect

Nautical rumor

Of distant essences,

Transfiguring

The horizon.

© Alicia Minjarez Ramírez

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez

TRANSLATED BY:  ALARIC GUTIÉRREZ

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ALICIA MINJAREZ RAMÍREZ