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Rinconcito
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the body is as solid as the thought that holds it in place
by Carlos Schröder
# 4
this was the love of perfect form
the verb the nerve the web colliding
ensuring the demise of muscles
tissues
the melting into you
mouths
speaking in tongues
never until now
then
understood
the meaning
leaning towards the light
like plants
unconscious barely
and words and words
and more than what i ever wanted
and more than what i ever got
this is the love of perfect form
these are the loves of perfect form
a conjugation
mispronunciation
the name is changed
the body is dreamed.
# 7
this is the occasion of language
of changing from utterance to word
from sound to meaning
this is the hour when the sun sets down
reassuring our instincts and betraying the scientific certainties
and it is this sun
sinking
obliterating itself
in the promise of a day following this one ceasing
that gives us hope
a glimpse of what we are
a structure upon which to fall as the lover falls into the arms
of the receiving lover
who holds
tightly
waiting for his turn to fall
to be held
to be had
to be over.
# 9
the body is as solid as the thought that holds it in place
the torturer knows this
and lets the victim know
that he can think of the body
as chapters in a book
independent from each other yet connected
then tears the pages
one by one.
Carlos Schröder has taught English courses at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia, since 2004 and before then, taught at the University of Maryland. A native of Argentina, his creative work, mostly poetry, has appeared in publications both in the US and Argentina in English and Spanish and he has had a play produced in Buenos Aires. He is an active member of the Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (APDH), http://www.apdh-argentina.org.ar, and with local groups in Washington DC, where he resides.