Translations

El jardín andino

by Julia Wong Kcomt

Fuerte puñado de estiércol
Piedra sobre guijarro
Hoja sobre hoja


Río comarca cadáver
Capullo


Savia rima otorongo
Caracolitos.

The Andean Garden
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translated from the Spanish by
Jennifer Shyue

Fistful of dung, pungent
Stone over pebble
Leaf over leaf


River district corpse
Cocoon


Sap rhymes jaguar
Miniature snails.

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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