"“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth
Friday, June 9, 2023
Hands in Poems: Daniel Faria
Friday, March 31, 2023
Hands in Poems: Irene Domínguez
Friday, March 24, 2023
Hands in Poems: Nicolás Guillén
Friday, February 17, 2023
Hands in Poems: Billy Collins
I LOVE YOU
Early on, I noticed that you always say it
to each of your children
as you are getting off the phone with them
just as you never fail to say it
to me whenever we arrive at the end of a call.
It's all new to this only child.
I never heard my parents say it,
at least not on such a regular basis,
nor did it ever occur to me to miss it.
To say I love you pretty much every day
would have seemed strangely obvious,
like saying I'm looking at you
when you are standing there looking at someone.
If my parents had started saying it
a lot, I would have started to worry about them.
Of course, I always like hearing it from you.
That is never a cause for concern.
The problem is I now find myself saying it back
if only because just saying good-bye
then hanging up would make me seem discourteous.
But like Bartleby, I would prefer not to
say it so often, would prefer instead to save it
for special occasions, like shouting it out as I leaped
into the red mouth of a volcano
with you standing helplessly on the smoking rim,
or while we are desperately clasping hands
before our plane plunges into the Gulf of Mexico,
which are only two of the examples I had in mind,
but enough, as it turns out, to make me
want to say it to you right now
and what better place than in the final couplet
of a poem where, as every student knows, it really counts.
Monday, November 2, 2020
Hands in Poems: María Sánchez
I
Hay barro donde estaban las gallinas.
Cómo recuerdo sus manos despellejando a la
liebre.
Acción:
acción y delicadeza.
Hasta que no aparecía la primera mancha, no podíamos cantar
nanas
satinadas entrañas rojas
invisible surge ahora la canción mientras las
hijas de esas manos recogen limones, rastrean
la tierra en busca de patatas, evitan la herida al
abrirse paso entre las malas hierbas.
Acción:
acción y delicadeza.
A la vez los hombres de la casa asisten a la ca-
sería: es así como las otras manos perpetúan al
depredador y al linaje. Es así como sucede de
nuevo la mancha, la vida.
Acción: acción y delicadeza.
Pero yo
todavía no tengo
nada
en las manos.
En Cuaderno de campo (2017)
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Hands in Poems: Antonio Gamoneda (VIII)
Monday, June 15, 2020
Hands in Poems: Antonio Gamoneda (V)
Sunday, January 19, 2020
Hands in Poems: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (V)
Saturday, December 28, 2019
Hands in Poems: Francisco X. Fernández Naval (IV)
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Hands in Poems: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (IV)
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Hands in Poems: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (III)
Friday, November 15, 2019
Hands in Poems: Derek Mahon
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Hands in Poems: Billy Collins (IV)
Saturday, November 2, 2019
Hands in Poems: Antonio Machado (V)
Saturday, October 26, 2019
Hands in Poems: Alfonsina Storni (X)
Monday, September 23, 2019
Hands in Poems: Fernando Pessoa (IV)
Nem uma memória na alma,
Que quando te puserem
Nas mãos o óbolo último,
Ao abrirem-te as mãos
Nada te cairá.
Que trono te querem dar
Que Átropos to não tire?
Que louros que não fanem
Nos arbítrios de Minos?
Que horas que te não tornem
Da estatura da sombra
Que serás quando fores
Na noite e ao fim da estrada.
Colhe as flores mas larga-as,
Das mãos mal as olhaste.
Senta-te ao sol. Abdica
E sê rei de ti próprio.
Saturday, September 14, 2019
Hands in Poems: Rosario Castellanos (II)
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Hands in Poems: Billy Collins (II)
Monday, September 2, 2019
Hands in Poems: Mario Benedetti (VIII)
es difícil
decir que no
decir no quiero
ver que el dinero forma un cerco
alrededor de tu esperanza
sentir que otros
los peores
entran a saco por tu sueño
ya lo sabemos
es difícil
decir que no
decir no quiero
no obstante
cómo desalienta
verte bajar de tu esperanza
saberte lejos de ti mismo
oírte
primero despacito
decir que sí
decir sí quiero
comunicarlo luego al mundo
con un orgullo enajenado
y ver que un día
pobre diablo
ya para siempre pordiosero
poquito a poco
abres la mano
y nunca más
puedes
cerrarla.



















