Luis Alberto de Cuenca

William of Aquitaine Returns

I’m going to make a poem out of nothing.

You and I will be the protagonists.

Our emptiness, our loneliness,

the deadly boredom, the daily defeats:

all these things will go into the poem,

which is bound to be short, since they

fit in a few lines, maybe as few as seven,

or perhaps eight, if this last line... See more