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Apr/May 2019 Poetry Special Feature

The Present Dissolves on the Bed at the Bottom of a Well

by José Enrique Medina

Excerpted imagery from photography by Kris Saknussemm

Excerpted imagery from photography by Kris Saknussemm



The Present Dissolves on the Bed at the Bottom of a Well

In the yellow well
in which clouds are reflected
as green cotton

In the green cotton
where the cotton candy of dreams dissolves

In the cotton candy of dreams
where the present lives
like a flower surrounded by bees

Like a flower surrounded by bees
my love sits
on the bed located at the end of a well.

 

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