Best Ojo Poems

In the eye of the hurricane, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : En el ojo del hurracan

(Ninth in the collection : Metafora del Desafuero, published – according to the editor, Alejandro 
Duque Amusco – not in 1988, but in 1989, was awarded the « Premio...

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Where the chug of boiling water pumps
and spills its acids, oxides,
to dye the ice-slabbed hillside orange-red
desert colors, we loll naked in a pool
 lulled half-asleep; first drugged in a broth
of minerals shot from the earth´s core,
then dragged down to a nether place
where the chill of...

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Ojo Caliente


Call on John to
submerse me in the 
Holy waters of the 
Ojo Caliente

Cleanse me deep
In the high desert heat
Hidden in  New Mexico 

Where the ancients came to
breathe new life from beneath
the clear clean springs of life

I am weary of the journey
I am weak...

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