PORTRAIT

Edgardo Toro, Ediciones PUCV 2025

 

What about?

 

What about

starting a revolution?

a small one of course,

we are not at these “changing world.”

 times

maybe smile a little more

consume less

turn off devices

more handwriting

sending a letter by post

playing at the Meadows

going to Portobello

making sense at work

I am talking about

recovering things that never were

it’s just to depend on each other

to belong to others

to take care and be cared

losing in the paradox.

What about

finishing this revolution?

 

 

The lady 

The lovely Lady

grey hair

closed eyes

breathing freedom

the wind in her face.

She is peaceful

because

Death kindly has sent a note

and told her:

“I will come for you at tea time”.

The lovely lady is grateful because of this charming gesture

and she spends her time on the most important things

wee things

that she never thought before

grey hair, wind in the face, closed eyes.

Places and customs

Where are you from?

Where are you going?

What are you talking about?

 

Home

–      Describe your homeland, please –

Well, we are made of

savage nature

poetry

and wine

just that.

JENNI FAGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kintsugi

Japanese 

believe-

what’s broken, 

is more beautiful 

for 

the cracks,

which

is 

why 

they 

fill them 

with gold.

 

 

She Thinks She’s Doing It All for Love

She thinks a sideboard

can save

her from sadness,

she thinks her brittle

is balm

for gin, 

she’s contorting

trying to contain 

the bile

the ill

enough hate to fill a handbag

pockmarks

for postcards, 

if you ask

her, she’ll say

she’s doing it all for love.

Jenni Fagan (1977)  es una novelista y poeta escocesa. Ha escrito varios libros, entre ellos la novela de ficción El Panóptico, guiones y varios libros de poesía. Fue nombrada escritora escocesa del año 2016 por The Glasgow Herald.

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