Poetry Series 2: Loteria Cards and Fortune Poems A Book Of Lives

Okay. Another cultural and interesting selection this time before we get to some classic authors. This is a collaborative project between a poet and an artist. It is artwork and poetry based on the Mexican game of chance, la loteria. Again, another collection I suggest you fully examine. But for today, I chose the final poem and indeed one of the more powerful. La Rosa.



You called my name,

I remember-you painted
my storms after the century burned. You left me.
My days, well, you said, they were lives
without discovery, you used that word-
discovery. My rouge voices fascinated you,
the unkempt nights in my tresses, all
radiations drawn in-between my heart and
your heart. We were Einstein's chalk-lines
crossing over stars and wide seas
into timelessness. Yes, the lascivious poisons
of my thorns were necessary, they were the steps
I took to reach my heights. Each kiss,
an ascension. Now, the vase stands as a reminder
of your ashes. The house, arranged in perfect
shadows, an illusion too. I flourish with these
new silences & new loves. I use the word silences

for sky.