Moon Chant

Holding hands,
Piercing idyllic forests,
Dates and prunes
Are seeded wild,
Like impregnated
Fire water drops
On the green breeze
Of your gaze.
Undamaged yearnings
Rummage
The absence or presence
Of your breath.
Fragrant essence
Evokes the moss dance
In Turkish oak timbers.
Chimerical magma
Rises and falls,
The ottoman honeysuckle
Of your luminous pores
Opened up
To the furtive wrap
Of my nights.                                                                                                                                       

Written by: Alicia Minjarez Ramírez, Mexico

Translated by: Alaric Gutiérrez                                                                                                         

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Alicia Minjarez Ramírez is an internationally renowned Mexican poetess and author who has won numerous awards including: the Excellence Prize World Poetry Championship Romania 2019. Literary Prize “Tra le Parole e L’infinito” Italy 2019. EASAL medal Award by the European Academy of Sciences and Letters France 2018.”