Translations

Cañón del Colca

by Julia Wong Kcomt

The condor is hiding
from you, shrewd one
you don’t deserve
even the stones bursting
at the bottom of the chasm
mud words and old plumes
transgress
like tuneless chords

Landscape full
of death and destitution
fervent
a European heart is closed

Sharp-eyed light
when love makes drool drip
from foreign skulls.

Julia Wong Kcomt is a Chinese-Peruvian writer. Born in Chepén, Peru, she has lived on three continents. Her publications—a dozen volumes of poetry, three novels, one novella, one short-story collection, and two collections of hybrid prose work—include Ladrón de codornices, Doble felicidad, and Pessoa por Wong.

FROM Volume 69, Number 1

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