Traffic spreads through the small neighborhoods that the highway crosses. The streets with medians are now tributaries of a large asphalt river. Still and silent the houses along the way digest their bitterness. From the dignity of the attic apartments the children play, pretending that cars are space ships and the road a cosmic […]
El tráfico envenena en los pequeños barrios que cruza la autovía. Las calles divididas son ahora afluentes de un gran río de asfalto. Inmóviles y mudas digieren su amargura las casas del camino. Desde la dignidad de sus boardillas los niños juegan, a inventar que los coches son naves espaciales y que la carretera […]
Ana Merino directs the MFA program in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. She has published seven books of poems: Preparativos para un viaje (winner of the Adonais Prize in 1994), Los días gemelos (1997), La voz de los relojes (2000), Juegos de niños (winner of the Fray Luis de León Prize in […]