Between January 1st and March 28th of 2018 I lived in Buenos Aires, danced the tango daily and nightly, and nurtured a divine love affair with a professional tanguero.
Many times in those months I teased about the poetry he inspired in me. In the intro to this collection I reference these "debts" I promised to write. While those specific poems still remain unwritten, in my final days before leaving the city, my love-soaked hands wrung out these five into a little notebook.
Esto es esa libretita:
(This is that little notebook)
For the English translations, click here.
Intro
I owe you 5 poems:
1. "La Plenitud de Los Tiempos"
2. "Antonio y Margarita" (una historia)
3. "Tu Interior (Un Espacio)"
4. [Algo sobre sonrisas]
5. "Pretty the sun in your face"
I want to write them all.
This is just a start.
1.
Quiero escribirlos todos
y llenar libros numerosos;
Quiero crear una obra
maestra de amor
muy
muy
hermosa.
Y quizás
lo haré.
Quizás
lo haremos
juntos.
Quizás
hay un futuro
donde escribimos
esas páginas,
esa poesía
viviente
que requieren
cuatro manos
para ser.
Esas historias
perfectas
de esos personajes
perfectos
que no solo pueden
contarles,
pero existen
para vivirles.