Author: Ariel Francisco
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SONG FOR AMERICA by Jacques Viau Renaud trans. Ariel Francisco
America, sitting atop the night’s shoulderssinging in the faces of the hungrydeciphering the language of sadnessmeasuring the modulation of hatred in our children’s stomachs.America, they’ve stolen your joydestroying the muscles in your facetied your heart to the vigilwhere thousands of beings wanderinhabited by death,a death we drag since men, from beyond,buried his sword, before your…
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TWO POEMS by Ariel Francisco
DREAMING OF THE GOVERNOR AND THE MAYOR PLUNGING INTO THE RIVER Perhaps conjoined at the ankleby a concrete block, like the tailsof Pisces. Yes, let them embrace the East River together in early morning so they may be blessedat last by the light of a new dayrising beautifully without them. MY DAD’S BIRTHDAY…