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—
About this poem
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 |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 89 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 5, 2, 5, 5 |
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