Category Archives: Laila Pedro

I’m hungry for the site of your birth

I’m hungry for the site of your birth: for spreading landscapes, a vista of acres burnt like an offering; a desert church. but (working, as always, from memory): I’m afraid of losing my own, my invasive, my in-sloping horizons that … Continue reading

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Para Tí

Gracias. Por tu melodía (me la sabía sin saberlo) que me arrastró, fuera del sueño por mi mente, suave, tranquila, blasonada con consiencia su escudo el despierto por las palabras que se bifucaron paseando donde no debían por tu saludo … Continue reading

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for Mariya

when rain inverted the garden we reversed our view and, seamlessly, we were granted a picture window: a sheltering maple (flat, you said, so the leaves can catch the water) allowed light through, only, in gold white daubed and flashing … Continue reading

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To draw (again)

drawing: my eyes are too impatient- they will not seek out the work of shadows and depth for all that tactile desire may spread out– (a thin gold vein, threading through the fingers                                                                                                            shaping them, a flitting dark against a … Continue reading

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