Eldra, who is rich

A RICH girl moved in there,” they said.
And thought to find a golden head,
Almost, with diamond ears and eyes!
But soon there came a nice surprise.
They saw a child run out to see
Themselves. She yelled, “Please play with me!”
And brought her doll, and skipped, and smiled,
Like any other little child.

breve charla sobre las vicuñas

Un animal mítico, a la vicuña le va bien
en las regiones volcánicas del norte de Perú.
La luz truena sobre ella, como Milton
a sus hijas. ¿Escuchas eso?— ellas
están contando en silencio.
Piensa sobre el estilo de vida por un
momento. Cuando tomes tu
hacha, presta atención. Pezuñas, viento.
Son ellas las que nos hacen sentir aquí
como en casa, no al revés.

optimism

More and more I have come to admire resilience.

Not the simple resistance of a pillow, whose foam

returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous

tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side,

it turns in another.  A blind intelligence, true.

But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers,

mitochondria, figs — all this resinous, unretractable earth.