At Night the Cats
by Antonio Cisneros
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"Antonio Cisneros, the most distinguished poet now writing in Peru, is one of the major poets of all Spanish America... an irreverent and revisionist interpretation of Peru's past" -Jack Schmitt, L.A. TimesWind (Haut-de-Cagnes)The wind fucks me up,even if it's literary like the Mistral thatprowlsthrough myhousenames hotels and winestangling my hair which I want to keep tidylike a farmevery plant, every animal in place.When it comes from the water it brings sand,shipwrecked sailors, planks show more from wreckswhich it calmly plants between my eyes.From the forests: thorns, tall branchesand spikes and owls,(From the streets of Lima:dust,dust,dust,and a little ground glass). show lessTags
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