Ingred Zelada


Sublimated Answers to Love


You must no longer hope, fantasize, or
make from appointments reality.
Strong embrace, you need not loosen for me;
under light of perpetual ownership
we amount to a sky, baptized
with inhibitions and divested of your love.
God's eternity detains the clock
locked in your body's excited smells,
kept safe in the trunk of your movements'
keepsakes. Written on with sweat,
drawn by lovely fire,
our testified angel moves east.
Recurrence, you remain in me.
You do not love me. Of fused hearts
and of the appearance of light and perfection
I invite you to write on my arms,
tonight or whenever you want.



The Angel Begins


I know that lights outside
announce survival is a city,
that posts are moored
to stop their bleeding.
That mountain air
scratches at your breath
as it descends on roofs
dispersed in the night.
But you put your humid star language,
your wet cat skill, and your
embered body on my defenseless neck,
soul, and body; desire
of all my butterflies, lift your gaze.
Little haunt that already
my hands befall, eager skies
give you their lips.
Below they brandish leaves
of sedentary fear, knives, while here
you supplement my sores
and explain with fresh affection
your lowest kiss.
Clear the way—perhaps clear all
away! Here, in these spaces,
we initiate the angel becoming its wings,
invented so as not to deny themselves.



You, in Order


Shooting the works at night, sleepless;
out of the imaginary style of the gates
of your forelegs breathe judgments
into the false life of a superior.

A touch of rum or brandy in the rain
that once was due above me,
in case you wish to provoke it,
may enter your ruinous wits.

The delirious vehements,
the communicable reasons,
each of the partisan sentiments
is unnecessarily absent.

Petals of popcorn
snatched in the privy—
nonetheless I save this letter
which observes your aroma.

The universality of stars
wherever the sun hits the garden patch
is, to my inveterate eyes,
only one dimension of your cautiousness.

It is very important
to mend your ways.



By Way of the Trouble


To flee the locus of annoyance,
desolate and without sadness,
as where what once I changed
is now the world.

Through the troubled one, the sea,
where my ears listen for the melody's
latitude and want is
either sail or horizon; I ought to
reach eternally for the compass;

to be the poetry of conversion,
the air breathing into the reasonable
heart, in happiness, in from trouble,
through me.

Now, by the heat of its own scorn,
the world has changed; its breath
verses through individual lips,
sweetheart and sweetheart,
lost to one another.



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