we still played
with dolls
when names were multiplied
seventy times seven heteronyms
slept
on the same pillow
we carried in our bodies
the sum of all our ancestors :
violence intimacy
converted into chamber music
the danger is
where end
our arms were therefore a higher
algebra
than metaphor
Helena García Mariño, Madrid (Spain), 1990. She studied Law and Political Science and Comparative Literature in Madrid, Spain. She’s graduated in May, 2017, in the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. She´s currently working on her first book of poems, "the tongue in pieces."