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Sunday, July 22, 2007
"Anecdotes" by Daniel Malpica
let us tell our sorrows to the l
............................................e
..............................................a
................................................v
..................................................e
....................................................s
.................once in a while it is
...........nice to talk to someone
........................who listens to you
..............let us tell him about you
.......................and how you are now
....................without any doubt
.......................painting your boredom
.........................at home
...........................or playing
.............to whisper words to silence
...................let us tell him about when
.................i
...................bit
........................my fingernails
or when
................i couldn’t play with the ball in a cup
..................................let us tell him too
....................................how i told
......................................my sorrows to the leaves
..how I told them about you
...............and what you said about my fingernails and balls in a cup
................and how i told
................................that i told
...................................................we should tell
.........................................our sorrows to the leaves…
(trans. Aurelio Meza)
Daniel Malpica was born in Mexico City in 1988. He took part of the Poesía en voz alta '06 festival, along with Amiri Baraka. He recently won the UNAM Postal de la muerte contest.
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5 comments:
thanks aurelio.
if the blog is in english, the comment need to be the same.
good blog
Aurelio. Look my bad english. This is a great blog. But you got so much work to promover this blog. My english is badder than Miguel Angel Floress poems Hugs
Malpica´s poetry in the web
i heard he´s a great Mexican poet
And so it is...just like you say it will be.
eduardo you need to improve that english so bad! aurelio could you teach him? but who could stand a pupil like him?! i don't!
jajaja
greetings to everyone!!!
seeya!
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