arnoldo garcía

Migrant Incantations

échame tierra

sobre la cabeza y la cara

brota mi pecho con polvo

enloda mi lengua

échame tierra

porque me voy muy lejos de aquí

*

throw some dirt

over my head, let it run over my face

rub some dust on my breasts and chest

muddy my tongue

throw some dirt over me

because I am going far far away from here

*

To discuss

words with words

is the height

of consciousness

consciousness

of consciousness

the infinite molting

of consciousness

a head full of serpents

a chaos of

molecular currents pushing herself slithering making time and space

exploding at

the touch of air

blood the altitude of tenderness

tenderness the attitude of my blood