Clade Song 5

first Spanish then the English

Mar Blanco

A Brian Nissen

La música de esquirlas de mar
en el silencio de la luz blanca.

Es el desorden siempre nuevo,
el milagro de cada instante que no se repite,
el vuelo de la flecha
convertido en el blanco.

La mirada se funde
en el mar roto en espejos
de luz que saltan por todas partes.

El estallido del mar
persigue siempre la calma
de la mirada suspensa
donde toda luz es música,
translúcida espuma que reposa
un instante
y cae.

Vendrá la noche,
blanca como todo,
a iluminar sus misterios
en ese espacio vacío del mar.
La noche siempre estuvo ahí,
el mar blanco construye
y destruye su historia
en las horas oscuras
con un vaivén de brillos silenciosos
que estallan en sus profundidades de luz.

Marcelo Uribe is the author of “Ultima Función” which was a finalist for the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Jaime Sabines 2009. He is editor for Ediciones Era from 1991 to the present.

Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and crossed the border through Tijuana at the age of five. He is a Canto Mundo fellow, a Zell post-graduate fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his manuscript was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize. With Javier Zamora and Christopher Soto, he initiated the Undocupoets campaign against first book prize discrimination.

CD Wright was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. She has published over a dozen books, including Rising, Falling, Hovering, Like Something Flying Backwards: New and Selected Poems, and a text edition of One Big Self: An Investigation, focused on Louisiana inmates. She has published several book-length poems including Deepstep Come Shining and Just Whistle. Wright is former State Poet of Rhode Island and with poet Forrest Gander she edited Lost Roads Publishers for over twenty years.