SIN QUIENES
by Urayoán Noel
Primer.
Primer
Interior
interior.
fresco. Mar no vital
Fresco mar, ¿no? Vital
sauce. Taller solar cultivar.
sauce. Taller solar. Cultivar.
Do come.
¿Do come?
Paces.
Paces.
Habitable
Habitable
arena. Transversal
arena transversal.
me. He. Tornado. Revolver.
Me he tornado (revolver)
Terror.
terror.
Rival?
¿Rival?
No. Red atlas.
No. Red. ¿Atlas?
Relieve grave sin? Alas!
Relieve grave sin alas.
Tender radical. Disparate
Tender radical. Disparate
seas. Surge!
seas. ¡Surge!
Originally from Río Piedras, Puerto Rico URAYOÁN NOEL is the author of eight books of poetry, including Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico (2015) and the forthcoming Transversal, both from the University of Arizona Press. His study In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam (University of Iowa Press, 2014) received the LASA Latino Studies Book Prize, and he has been a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award for his translations of Latin American poetry. A 2020-2021 Schomburg Center scholar-in-residence, Noel lives in the Bronx and teaches at New York University.