Chemba Roja

Foto por Natalia Alonzo

Voy a ser un pedazo de sueño en el 
bolsillo,entre la oscuridad…
y un aerosol a la calma,
cuando el perfume barato se
trague la chemba roja.

I will be a piece of a dream in the pocket,
between darkness…
and a spray to the calmness,
when the cheap perfume
swallows the red lips.

Poem X

(This poem was co-written with a talented Dominican writer)

The flames of the axes from Earth are stationed in his eyebrows.
He kisses with his feet the unconscious mind.
I’ve seem him in the foam of the wind, naked as a hurricane.
He is one, inside of millions of thoughts.
The mirror is his age without
a flesh tissue from an orgasm with an expiration date. I want to hug him…
unnamed in the tentative curves of his existence.
Him — unreachable and fleeting, without a body and a breath from the universe.
One who lives in a jail inside the abdomen of the horizon.
He would be the intense desire
until he stops being what he will never be.

— F.P. @mujerconvozpoetry

And perhaps it never will be.
But in his attempt, he has given me everything that can be given.
Torrents of stroking caress down the
backbone of the Galaxy.
Illusions of having his sight embodied
in my horizon, and let the sea foam alone embrace our bodies.
Merge into one.
And wake up in the gusting arms of the wind,
which encompasses with the rapidly beating of our beats.
While the crystal clear reflection of his eyes shows me the infinite tortuous
pleasure that lurks in the womb of desire.
He — volatile as the wind, faceless
name among millions of thoughts.
Meanwhile,he offers me the world
without being.
And maybe, it will never be.

— D.C.M.F. @dcmf3

Photo by Oliver Gonzalez-Santos

Cabeza Hueca

Y lo expresó bajito:

-I don’t visit my grandmother because

she doesn’t have WiFi-

-What a shame!-

I thought out loud.

I made a note in my head:

-Do not visit this cabeza hueca,

she doesn’t have a brain.-

©F.P. – 2015.

Caribeña

I am the Caribbean:

the mixed jungle
the sleeping sunsets of curly hair
Taino’s eyes
Minerva Mirabal
Conquistadora of the impossible
Caña-speaking aloud soul
Lectora,
Another unknown inexperienced poet
Hierro character
and never a follower.
I guess thats too much to handle…

¿Perdón?

How many times can

you say sorry?

to

            a woman who knows her caminos

            Her hair screams Africa

            her mind is the Atlantic

            lectora de mentes

A woman who no longer waits

A strong-leave-me alone lady

never a llorona

A pants- and -skirt bien puestos

            A sábelo-todo

            lady with heavy books on her brain

            An Einstein with a Latin touch

Stop quoting Neruda

Stop taking classes to dance bachata

Stop pretending you like the MoMA

Quit.

©F.P. – 2015

Distinta

Soy una mujer de boleros, pintura y comida hecha por mis propias manos.

Mis talentos son;

hablar con los ojos y repartir verdades.

Soy lo opuesto a lo común.

¿Quién digo que ser así es malo?

©F.P. – 2015