{"id":1847,"date":"2018-05-07T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/?page_id=1847"},"modified":"2018-05-07T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:35:32","slug":"medina","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/medina\/","title":{"rendered":"Medina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Pablo Medina<\/em><\/p>\n

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How not to leave this island
of lizards and stone cushions?
How not to turn my back
on the sea urchin and the scorpion?<\/p>\n

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I'm going, as I said some time ago,
to a field where the clouds are grazing
and the lilies hum an ancient tune of nebular origin.<\/p>\n

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On that field the ragged cows interpret
one another and swans waddle
wing-to-elbow with a lion
and an old dog howls
and bites its rump all day.
Such are the trials of paradise.<\/p>\n

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I promise to leave you all behind
dozing in your cave of shadows. The sun
is an owl's yawn and the stars
the roe of a occult bird.<\/p>\n

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I will dive in the waters that swallow snow
and make foam and no one understands.<\/p>\n

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Cuban-born Pablo Medina is the author of sixteen books, including the poetry collections The Island Kingdom,<\/em> The Man Who Wrote on Water, Calle Habana,<\/em> Points of Balance\/Puntos de Apoyo, <\/em>and others; the novels Cubop City Blues<\/em>, The Cigar Roller<\/em>, The Return of Felix Nogara,<\/em> and Marks of Birth<\/em>; and the memoir Exiled Memories: A Cuban Childhood<\/em>. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. He teaches at Emerson College in Boston.<\/p>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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