Emily Dickinson / Ample Make this Bed

AMPLE MAKE THIS BED

by Emily Dickinson

Ample make this bed -

Make this Bed with Awe -
In it wait till Judgment break
Excellent and Fair.

Be it’s Mattress straight-

Be it’s Pillow round -
Let no Sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this Ground -

Emily Dickinson / I Hide Myself Within my Flower

Florecita quiteña
Quito, 2011
Photo by Triunfo Arciniegas

I HIDE MYSELF WITHIN MY FLOWER

by Emily Dickinson

I hide myself within my flower

That wearing on your breast –
You – unsuspecting, wear me too –
And angels know the rest!

I hide myself within my flower,

That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me –
Almost a loneliness

Orlando López Valencia / Adventure

ADVENTURE

By Orlando López Valencia

I have a nameless body

beside me.

I have in my arms

her anonymous passion

and the words that were born

in her fire.

What would she way when she wakes up

and see me without a mask,

minutely devoured?

José Manuel Arango / XLVIII

Scarlett Johansson

XLVIII

By José Manuel Arango

Translated by Nicolás Suescún

in what arduous countries
in what obscure war
without knowing it

have I fought and triumphed
to have you

while you
secluded in your adolescence
evading the trials of a resplendent
solitude

were preparing for me

José Manuel Arango / Writing

WRITING

By José Manuel Arango

Translated by Nicolás Suescún

night, like an animal
left its breath on my window

between the needles of the cold
I look at the trees

and in the misty glass
with my index finger, I write
this ephemeral word