Sandra M. Castillo Poems

"History always dresses us for the wrong occasions."
—Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Camera Obscura

The afternoon lightening his shadow,
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We assemble the silver tree,
our translated lives,
its luminous branches,
numbered to fit into its body.
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"All accounts of the past are made up of possibilities."
—Dionisio Martinez

for Larry Villanueva
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I see you, not as you stand before me,
so full of language threatening to spill from you,
a silver-blue luminous substance the page of cups
might carry in love, in a gold chalice,
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at Las Villas, a small Carol City bar with a makeshift stage,
where he spends too much time drinking,
pretending he can learn to play the guitar at forty-five,
become a singer, a musician,
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