Desired girls sleep



Burn the coal from my knees
those trembling legs
that fell like autumn

childhood behaves
like the most violent catastrophe
scrambled toys
the pink dresses
and the foam of the last verticalities

desired girls sleep
To the side of the road

hundreds of eyes describe the bodies
they undress them
they trace them
they moisten them
they dismember them

and those cat spirits
that flew like dust
between the garments and the blood of the leaves
they still meow about the garbage
—vomiting white waves—

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Poem from the book The Fire of the Butterflies

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Written on October 01, 2014

Submitted by empoderamientoinfantil on August 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX BXXXA XX ACCCC XXXXB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 502
Words 89
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 5, 2, 5, 5

Alondra Berber Mijangos

Alondra Berber (Acapulco, 1987)) is a Mexican poet and novelist. She is the author of the books "El Péndulum de Cal" (2013) and The Fire of the Butterflies (2015). She has been a fellow of the National Council for Culture and the Arts and the Secretary of Culture of the State of Guerrero through the Program to Encourage Creation and Artistic Development of Guerrero in 2012 and 2014. Her texts appear in Cronopio (Missouri), 99 degrees, El Humo, Flotante and the Poetry Newspaper of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Unam). She has produced and presented work in Mexico, Spain, Belgium and France. In 2016 she carried out an artistic residency at the Center d'Art i Natura, in Catalonia (Spain). more…

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