DANIEL DE CULLA

 

Danielito's Miracle

Danielito, as a child

Collected Jesus and the Virgin Mary’ s pictures

As well as mementos

From his cousins' first communions.

Before making his first communion

He wanted to be an altar boy

And the priest of his parish accepted him

Because he was the most handsome of the boys.

At eleven years of age

He entered the Conciliar Seminary of Segovia

Where he began to enjoy

The beauty of the Virgin

And the love of Jesus "the Beloved"

Promising them that he would give them

Everything they asked for.

As it could not be otherwise

He jerked off a lot in bed

Taking a liking to the father confessor

Going to confess with him once a week.

--My son, what's wrong with you?

Why so much jerking off?

-It's a fever, Father

That pierces my heart

And that, also, pleases me.

That is why I wear the hair shirt

That you have given me

And I make sacrifices like sleeping naked

On the mattress of the bed

Going to receive communion on my knees

In order to overcome the sin of Lust

That most desired capital sin

And most humiliated by all the saints.

I want to become a saint, Father

To levitate and see God

Like a Saint John of the Cross.

That is why, the first thing I read from the Bible

Is the Song of Songs of Solomon

And, in spiritual exercises

The only thing I read and reread

Is Saint John of the Cross’

“Dark Night of the Soul”

My most beloved poet.

More than once in their prayers

His fellow seminarians

Saw Danielito levitate

Rising to the Lord

Coming to himself

As if lying on sheets of fine linen.

A day of miracle

When his entire fifth-year class

Went to spend the whole day in the country

At the Boca del Asno

Next to the Eresma river in the Mountains of Valsaín

To enjoy its magnificent vegetation

And bathe in one of its pools

Next to the ravine of the river

That comes down from the mountain

Pure, clean and crystalline

He began to urinate in one of them

And by the grace that he carried in his bladder

And his spirit of a true saint

He turned the water of the pool into wine.

All his fellow seminarians

And some children of camping families

Jumping with joy

Went to tell the father superior

That Danielito was a saint

Because he had turned the water of the pool into wine

That they had tasted it

And that it was better than the wine of consecration

Better than the communion wine

Or the “Altaris” Vinun Missae

As one of the smartest ones said.

That they had filled their canteens

To take to their parents

So that they may enjoy it as it should be

And bless them for the grace

Of the seven turns on the road to Boca del Asno

As Teresa de Jesús was blessed

The seven mansions of her book

“The mansions or the interior castle”

Tracing of the spiritual life

In her vision of the soul

Like a diamond in the shape of a castle.

-Daniel de Culla

DANIEL DE CULLA

DANIEL DE CULLA: Writer, poet, painter and photographer. Member of the Collegiate Association of Spanish Writers, Earthly Writers International Caucus, Poets of the World, (IA) International Authors, Surrealism Art, Friends of The Blake Society, Nietzsche Circle and others. Director of Gallo Tricolor Review and Robespierre Review. He has participated in numerous Poetry and Theater Festivals, has collaborated and collaborates with various magazines and newspapers such as: Otoliths; The Stray Branch, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Allien Buddha Zine, The Poet Magazine, Uppagus, ReSite, GloMag, Fleas on the Dog, LAROLA, RAL'M, Misery Tourism, Leavings, The Creative Zine, Terror House Press; and other national ones: Pluma y Tintero, Letras de Parnaso, Revista Azahar, Cultura de Veracruz; Vericuetos,  Sol Cultural Center, etc.