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Myriam Moscona
Myriam Moscona
Her collection Ivory Black (Negro marfil), translated from the Spanish by Jen Hofer, received the Harold Morton Landon Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2012...
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Ivory Black [Dissolves]

 
by Myriam Moscona
translated by Jen Hofer

		      Dissolves
In ancient liquids		The black in shimmers

The harp like architecture its strings over unexpected rain
from echo to echo they draw their roughness they stop
If only I could			Seek within lack

     small incisions in the body like a drug they enter
let slip the poison they salivate they seek a place
dream cavity: I am inside it

They graze the air the harp strings
And carry them toward you
They stretch out along the waves   Sustain us
The sluices now open
Crackle in this refraction
Movement toward the stain

What is black breathes black at the window
				                 Where do I listen?
The harp broadcasts
Runaway sensations		         Without roots

Shades of night blue
Between the two of us:		 Explode






From Negro marfil / Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona. Copyright © 2011 by Jen Hofer. Published by Les Figues Press. Reprinted with permission of the translator.
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