Ardio mi memoria
Manolo Garcia
My memory burned
I saw the woman with wavy hair like serpents
running down the hillside towards the plains where the party whistles.
I saw the glimmers on the edge of the glasses during that night.
I saw the men, tough brown skin, in the distant tremor of the dance floor dust.
I saw rust float from harpoons in a moment that pierces and turns to look at you.
I knew of the metallic roar of engines in their ephemeral race towards the horizon's edge.
My memory burned and the world forest ablaze incinerated spites, transitions, disloyalty.
I lied and you lied to me and I felt like a kaleidoscopic insect:
dust and broken wings in the tremor of a particle of nothing.
Because if I don't belong to you, why do I think of you? Because if we don't inhabit crowds, why do you leave me alone?
Why if I don't belong to you, are you in me?
I saw bearded men ride rolling steel monsters.
Anchor and panting, dying for a few hours in the faint of sleep.
I saw lights, half-open doors closing, heard lost laughter;
murmurs, gasps, and the announcement of a dark day being born. (Storm of seas of tears)
I saw you float, rust from harpoons in a passing moment and you turned to look at me.
I knew that your groan, sleepless flesh, of my ephemeral race towards the edge of the horizon.
My memory burned and the world forest ablaze... My memory burned...