During the Mornings by Raquel Melendez

BOMB 9 Spring 1984

Interviews

Films from the Heartlands of México by Betsy Sussler
Pam Yates by Betsy Sussler

First Proof

Apr 1, 1984

Hope Sandrow, Palm Sunday, Century City I L.A., 1983, silver print. Courtesy of Oggi Domani, New York.

During the mornings
I hear the song of the zenzontles,
zanates, guises and gorriones;
the waters of a riverbed flow near a Ceiba.
There the birds fly upward
and then dive for a sip of water.
During the war
this ceiba
remained leafless, alone and without birds
and its trunk gored by bullets

Poetry Workshop of Barrio La Primavera

Translated from the Spanish by Zoë Anglesey.

From Poesia Libre, #7, July 1982 and The Dalmo’ma Anthology, Empty Bowl Press, 1984.

Originally published in

BOMB 9, Spring 1984

Nicolas Echevarria, Pam Yates, art by James Nares and Tom Otterness, writing by Daisy Zamora, Kathy Acker, Glenn O’Brien, and more.

Read the issue

I find the idea that we write alone laughable, even egotistical. Poetry is a palimpsest that has been endlessly rewritten—it’s a social space we share with others.

—

Jen Bervin

During the Mornings by Raquel Melendez

Interviews

First Proof

More

Related