Please be aware that this precious table scratches easily and wet marks may be
disastrous, Thank you.
Mónica de la Torre
They'd never been to the zoo, so they were expecting
to find something closer to what they imagined zoos should look like,
something closer to amusement parks than to safaris.
Upon arriving someone laughed so loud it sounded like a hyena
accentuating its theatrical wickedness.
The sharks were dangerous, especially during summertime.
Lobster tastes good with butter.
Butterflies usually fly about unless they're attached to spring hats,
which really makes them feel uncomfortable, and look silly.
Certain fascinations are hard to explain.
Recognition is inspiration... inspiration can be recognized or not.
Back to butterflies: when they fly they don't need
apparatuses
to suspend them in the air. They're not like spiders.
Their faces are imperceptible; if they were proportional to the size
of their wings they'd be ridiculous.
© Mónica de la Torre
Mónica de la Torre
is a poet and translator. She edited and translated a volume of
selected poems by Gerardo Deniz, published by Lost Roads. With
artist Terence Gower, she is the co-author of Appendices, Illustrations
& Notes.
Her
writing about art, poems, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in
journals such as Art on Paper, BOMB, Boston Review, Cabinet,
Fence, Chain, Pierogi Press, Review: Latin American Literature
and Arts, Ten Verses, and The Germ. With Michael Wiegers she
edited Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, published by
Copper Canyon Press in 2002. She is the
poetry editor of The Brooklyn Rail.
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