When in the old hometown years later
he found her across the pages of quotations,
sayings, biblical passages, what-i-did-today
diaries, trivialities, videos.
quote without mercy, the needle went into
my flesh, into my vein, pounding
pounding my brain like hell unquote.
what to make of her in the 1983 photograph,
she with the long tresses and yellow-green dress?
she is a promise of beauty, a love song
sung by a frail woman, a zsa zsa padilla
look-alike remembering her childhood
pain in a hospital that smelled of bedbugs,
antiseptic, crushed garlic and death.
model: maria margarita denise julian
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