Looking within: selected poems
Yesterday, she did not understand mathematics
but she read with pleasure a history of Africa
where they talked about
slave trafficking and galleons.
Today, he founded a baseball team
and he donated blood at the small provincial hospital.
She ran a whole course
and he went to buy tasty clams
at a market.
He dreamt about Indian women all doing laundry at the riverbank.
She went to the icebox
and, with an almost forbidden pleasure,
she devoured the clams that he had bought
at the market.
It is ten past four in the afternoon.
Both are looking through the same lens
and they have shared the same hope.
Books by Nancy Morejón in ALAWiT
Baladas para un sueño
Nancy Morejón
Querencias = homing instincts
Nancy Morejón
Looking within: selected poems
Nancy Morejón
About ALAWiT
ALAWiT is a resource for readers, writers, publishers, students and teachers interested in Afro-American and Latin American culture in general, and Afro-Latin American culture in particular. It gathers book covers, excerpts, bibliographic clues and digital downloads of works by black Latin American authors in original language and in translation.
The collection is developed to promote Afro-Latin American Writers in Translation: a series of critial editions of celebrated works in translation coordinated by professor Mark A. Sanders and aimed to advance research and academic reflection on the Black presence in Latin America and its influence across the Americas.
