Cipota under the moon: poems

1. Rio Sucio --

Agua de Beber --

Via Lactea --

El Salvador 1980 --

Syndrome --

Shade grown --

In the Vault of your hands --

Vamos a la escuela --

Garrison --

Tyranny of the Milky Way --

Hija de los dias --

This is not a poem --

Dios Madre --

For Alfredo Espino --

Caravans --

Angelitos --

Dead and alive --

Presagio --

Of the new place --

2. Flareup --

El Salvador, January 1981 --

Aqui estoy --

Chubasco --

Arrested delight --

Golden --

Wake --

Cloven moon --

Farmers market --

Less and less --

Epicurean matters --

Urban renewal --

A note from the Eastern Front --

Guanaco Tales --

What work is --

Trigger me a memory --

Held --

Noticias --

Civitas --

Altars on the streets --

Loteria de los pobres y valientes --

Monsenor Romero --

Alchemist --

Luminescence --

Thirteen ways of looking at a Pupusa --

Sometimes you are permitted a return --

3. Pura Vida --

Ask the bees --

Day stamp --

Bruja --

Milpa --

Sometimes you are permitted a return --

Ensalada --

Koky's song --

Silent valentine --

A natural act --

Perros de Luna --

Meditation on the Color Purple --

Minuta --

The way of peace --

Sol de Noche --

Cipota Bajo La Luna --

Aguacatero --

Caliche --

May God grant you a good day --

Lento --

Childhood syntax --

Rafters --

Tinta Florida --

Aqui nada mas --

4. On translation --

Visions of gladness --

Witness --

Surafel --

Ofrenda --

Assiduously --

No more short yardsticks to measure my days --

Clearest of nights --

Suenos --

My father's garden --

Curcubita maxima --

Gravity --

On citizenship --

Mitico//Mythic --

Leave the gate open on your way out.