Poem

George Mario Angel Quintero

Side by side

If I lack

If I lack
wings
these membranes
stuck to my back
must be petals.
They trap
the wind.
They lift me
upon airs.
They are
a flickering
that moves me.
I am a kite
of light
at times.

If I lack

Si carezco
de alas
estas membranas
pegadas a mi espalda
son pétalos.
Atrapan
el viento.
Me levantan
sobre los aires.
Son velas
que me mueven.
Soy cometa
de luz
a ratos.

George Mario Angel Quintero

(United States of America, 1964)

The son of Colombian parents, George Mario Angel Quintero was born in 1964 San Francisco, California, where he spent his first thirty years. He studied literature at the University of California and was later awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Fiction from Stanford University. He has published fiction, poetry, and essays in English as George Angel in literary magazines and the chapbook Gl...

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If I lack

If I lack
wings
these membranes
stuck to my back
must be petals.
They trap
the wind.
They lift me
upon airs.
They are
a flickering
that moves me.
I am a kite
of light
at times.

If I lack

If I lack
wings
these membranes
stuck to my back
must be petals.
They trap
the wind.
They lift me
upon airs.
They are
a flickering
that moves me.
I am a kite
of light
at times.