Poems by Clara Valverde

POEMS BY CLARA VALVERDE

Park Outremont
Make me fall in love with you trees of night sky seduce me again and again with the sound of the wind in your leaves Enamour me with your fingering branches make me helpless at the beauty of your dark lines

Speak Silence
How can I get you to speak silence put the words aside and listen to what I don't say: that I long to lose me and have you do the finding While time keeps waiting I become the moon of your planet, your arms, my gravity, but you cannot hear me not talking and I am growing fond of this longing

It's not time for the birth
It's not time for the birth and you already want out insisting that the growing should stop, while your belly keeps swelling with sea. With time she will come out eyes stinging with salt, body quivering from the force of the waves and i, who thought was alone, now find myself carrying my nostrils full of the deep sea smell. i often bragged of not wanting to go through labour pains like my mother, and now look at me, screaming myself into birth. Well, that'll teach you to want to leave the shore.

Frida Kahlo's Room
enclosed in glass unfolding in two I scatter held griefs over canvas little girl of landlocked promises blue and seashell for my hidden ship. (Coyoacan, Mexico D.F.)

Dear Sir
You may be pleased to note, dear sir, that those few glances of yours have pitted my senses against myself. Now the battle rages on while you stand innocently on the side lines.

Another night near the Honduran border
At the mouth of the dragon night feels afraid but love stays on weaving itself in our dreams waiting for gunfire sound while the deafening silence sticks to my skin. Outside, the moon nightwatches faithfully and waits.