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Rinconcito: ...our word goes out of date

4/30/2019

R i n c o n c i t o es un
i “rincón pequeño” especial para escritos cortos:
n un poema, un cuento, una memoria, ficción de repente, y otros.
c
o   Un par de poemas / A pair of poems
n
c   By José Clemente Carreño Medina
i   English translations by Toshiya Kamei
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o

Delirio

Un placer que se saborea solo no es placer.
–Erasmo de Rotterdan, Elogio de la locura

aquí está nuestro pan y vino
tinto
nuestra palabra caduca de
tiempo
nuestro presente
conjugado
nuestro trozo de
eternidad…

Delirium

A pleasure savored alone is not a pleasure.
–Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Praise of Folly

here are our bread and red
wine
our word goes out of
date
our conjugated
present
our piece of
eternity...

Muerte nocturna

Camino caminando los
pasos de tus huellas
Toco el viento con el
tacto de tu boca
Respiro a muerte en
cada palabra escrita
Bebo el vaso pleno
de tu ausencia
Vivo día a día una
muerte nueva
Muero noche a noche en
cada verso recién nacido...

Nocturnal Death

I walk keeping
track of your footsteps
I feel the wind with the
touch of your lips
I breathe death in
every written word
I drink a glass full
of your absence
Every day I live a
new death
every day
Every night I die in
every newborn verse...

José Clemente Carreño Medina, of Matías Romero, Oaxaca, México, grew up in Cuernavaca, Morelos, and now lives in Kirksville, Missouri, where he is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Truman State University. He has authored four collections of poems,Vigilias (2014), Serpientes y escaleras (2015), Guerra de palabras (2016), and Como si fuese a dejar la tierra (2017).

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Will you sing to me the summers in Amecatl?

4/14/2019

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Rinconcito

is a special little corner in Somos en escrito for short writings: a single poem, a short story, a memoir, flash fiction, and the like.

Song of Amecatl

by Magdalena Cervantes

When the guamuchiles
have rotted in the warm rains
And the chicharras
fill the trees
Will you sing to me
the summers in Amecatl?

When the milpas
sprout their crown
And dress the
cerros in green and gold
Will you sing to me
the summers in Amecatl?

When memory
of that valley
is no more
When the smell
of wet earth
becomes a dream
When the arroyo
has run dry
and Timinzique
long forgotten
Will you sing to me
the summers in Amecatl?

Magdalena Cervantes is a writer and visual artist from California by way of Jalisco, currently living in Los Angeles. Her short stories have appeared inThe Acentos Review, Jacaranda, and The McNair Scholars Journal. “Song of Amecatl” is her first foray into poetry. Find more of her writing and art on Instagram @magdalena_cer.

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Rinconcito: ...our word goes out of date

R i n c o n c i t o es un
i “rincón pequeño” especial para escritos cortos:
n un poema, un cuento, una memoria, ficción de repente, y otros.
c
o   Un par de poemas / A pair of poems
n
c   By José Clemente Carreño Medina
i   English translations by Toshiya Kamei
t
o

Delirio

Delirium

Muerte nocturna

Nocturnal Death

Will you sing to me the summers in Amecatl?

Rinconcito

Song of Amecatl

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Rinconcito: ...our word goes out of date

R i n c o n c i t o es un​i “rincón pequeño” especial para escritos cortos: n un poema, un cuento, una memoria, ficción de repente, y otros.co Un par de poemas / A pair of poemsnc By José Clemente Carreño Medinai ​English translations by Toshiya Kameito

​Delirio

Delirium

​Muerte nocturna

​Nocturnal Death

Will you sing to me the summers in Amecatl?

Rinconcito

Song of Amecatl ​

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R i n c o n c i t o es un
i “rincón pequeño” especial para escritos cortos:
n un poema, un cuento, una memoria, ficción de repente, y otros.
c
o Un par de poemas / A pair of poems
n
c By José Clemente Carreño Medina
i English translations by Toshiya Kamei
t
o

Delirio

Muerte nocturna

Nocturnal Death

Song of Amecatl

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