a long time-out,
longer than most,
a real jolt,
and behavior modification
could be harsh,
those tenements
looming like icicles,
the elevators trapped between floors,
parents edgy,
detached from real love,
a feeling, an emotion,
stifled by contempt
for authorities,
for the death-like masks
of infants flung far
away because
they had no way
to cry out,
and no taxes,
nothing from the rich,
nothing sacred any more
but money.
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde
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Love Tinka
I read it a couple times, before I got the full impact.
Excellent!
Love, Bonnie