Through the Window
A time exists there
Another air of gold
Another skin bound to wind
A time exists there
Another air of gold
Another skin bound to wind
Burn, you say, to live there is to burn
That mountain range in flames
Ascending through a strip of sky
That canvas of clouds on the face
Breaking the afternoon
Into a portrait of instants
Beyond, past the outskirts
Where the blaze thins out
The denseness of forest
See if a province is on fire
Bordering a land
Not in sight
Through the window
Blinding one world’s conflagration
Like the sun
In the shut memory of the eyes
Tedi López Mills was born in Mexico City in 1959. She has published ten books of poetry, several of which have received national prizes in Mexico. She also published a collection of essays, Libro de las explicaciones, in 2012.
Cheryl Clark Vermeulen earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after working for a decade in nonprofit organizations. Her poems have appeared or will appear in journals including Caketrain, Third Coast, DIAGRAM, EOAGH, and Inertia Magazine, and her translations in eXchanges and the anthology Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico. She is the author of the chapbook Dead-Eye Spring (Cy Gist Press) and a 2010 finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship. She teaches writing at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
