FRANCISCO X. ALARCÓN
January 16th, 2016 by admin
We have lost a rare and beautiful person. To Francisco, my friend, my love to you on your new journey. It has been my privilege and my joy to have gotten to know you and to work with you. Thanks to James Downs for introducing us and thanks to Devon, my son, and Kiirsti, my daughter, for the good work we did on your book project. And thanks to Javier, blessings to you.
Francisco is one of those special people, special poets, who in his life and in his poetry he showed us the best a person can be. In his poetry you see the man and in the man you see his poetry, they are the same. As James said to me tonight, "he is now the Borderless Butterfly flying over us all."
Loco Crazy
mis puertas I leave las dejo my doors sin cerrar unlocked
los extraños strangers me parecen look to me tan familiares so familiar
a todos I would los abrazaría embrace and y besaría kiss them all
cada día every day en la calle on the street hallo a Dios I run into God
en vez instead de llorar of crying ahora me río now I laugh
quiero poner I want to el mundo turn the world al revés upside down
nada nothing me convence – sways me – debo de estar loco I must be crazy
3 de agosto de 2009 August 3, 2009
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