The Mystic Poems

“A silhouette, winged biology without vertebrae, demands the flood. You laugh, but the jungles throw away their red bodies. They dissolve their flesh to be born again.”

Collage: a giant human iris with a blue pupil and teardrop shapes, two more eyes below and a small figure in a silver mask, on a starry black background.

You are not here

every night
although it fades
I drink your sweet
behind the world

my tongue pierces the darkness
and without eyes I bless your body

I can smell your breath

your legs on the cotton

these sheets

the grave where I now visit you

protects you from the waters of time
that wash our memory

The mirror

no one knows the other side of the mirror
not even the sage

nobody takes care
of those who wander
on its canvas

they are naked
in front of doors
from another land

in their dreams we see them

in their dreams they smell us

no one knows the other side of the mirror
an unnavigable sea of eyes
haunts for our flesh
the gate of reflections.

Illustration: concentric rings of cyan, pink, purple, blue, red, yellow and green around a small black eye, on a dark red background.
Fig. 2 · The mirror

The death of all names

I can only hear music between the bodies

sacred sounds

doors

scars that reveal another world

a space where the death of all names

is our victory.

Illustration: a tilted block of colored panels with loose brush shapes, among them a brown bell, a toucan and pale blue water.
Fig. 3 · The death of all names