Poetic Influences

Cesar Vallejo provided apt description announcing blows in life
The blows that one sometimes encounters
Taking on the description that Cesar Vallejo provided as it was with sufficient motifs
The proclamation of there being few while insisting on their existence

Enrique Giordano protagonist in
“The Only Thing That I Fear Is That I Don’t Have Enough Time”
Between simulated metrics I send you this message
Understanding that the feeble attempt disembarks our intents

Do you know what happened to me trusted one
At the present I am passing through darkened paths created out of my own mistakes
Being such that a malevolent occurrence came my way
The tragedy of the act resounding in its occurrence

I was using the book with plans of putting it to use
Planning to work with it until the end of the year
And for all that I can see I cannot see how
I left the book on the bus seat as I was departing

This explained but Enrique of “The Only
Thing That I Fear Is That I Don’t Have Enough Time”
The Enrique of so much intelligence until it assumes legs running through the bricks
In that Enrique I confide concerning what has happened without worrying about the little details

Now I read “Mapa De Amsterdam”
Every time that I visit the Alma Mater’s library
It’s like a ritual
Going to read your contribution in Los Paraguas Amarrillos

Now former thesis advisor and confidant at Columbia University
Confidant for as far as I was going to associate
Or reach out to get to know someone else
You had to really have been some sensitive individual

You really went for it when you accepted being my thesis advisor at Columbia University
It was going to be something everlasting
Something that carried on after our labors and collaborations
You really went for it
Aiding a weather underground trained student

Among those things that transcend
Could your mastery of Miguel Angel Asturias, Otto Rene Castillo and The Popol Vuh still
be as sharp
“Those were the days” Edith Bunker
Next poet from the land of poets

Now I’m looking at people that I could be talking to
I reached out to you Enrique Giordano
But anyone can do that - you were rivaling Violeta Parra in sensitivity
That poetic flame that you passed to me has now gone over into career