Noche de lluvia, San Salvador

A breathtaking poem by Aracelis Girmay (b. 1977) to be posted this week…

(Taken from a New York’s Metro Card. Poetry in Motion ® MTA –

Kingdom Animalia © 2011 by the author)

 

Rain who nails the earth,

whose infinite legs

nail the earth, whose silver faces

touch my faces, I marry you. & open

all the windows of my house to hear

your million feral versions

of si si

sí

si

si