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Liana Mejía

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SOMEONE BREAKS A LAMP

A body in the darkness
crumbles
as if fulfilling
a sacred ceremony
and from the deepest entrails
a pain cracks like a whip.

Torn from some convulsing throat
they call you by name.

ALGUIEN ROMPE UNA LÁMPARA

Un cuerpo en la oscuridad
se desmorona
como cumpliendo
una sagrada ceremonia
y vísceras adentro
un dolor de látigo restalla.

Desde una garganta desgarrada
te llaman por tu nombre.

Liana Mejía

(Colombia, 1960)

Born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1960, Liana Mejía won the University of Antioquia’s IV National Poetry Award in 1982, followed by the University of Nariño’s Awaska National Poetry award in 1984. In its early years, she was a member of the Prometeo magazine editorial commitee. Liana writes, she says, because she has to, and notes that a poem “shares your essence in a way, it seems, that enables o...

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SOMEONE BREAKS A LAMP

A body in the darkness
crumbles
as if fulfilling
a sacred ceremony
and from the deepest entrails
a pain cracks like a whip.

Torn from some convulsing throat
they call you by name.

SOMEONE BREAKS A LAMP

A body in the darkness
crumbles
as if fulfilling
a sacred ceremony
and from the deepest entrails
a pain cracks like a whip.

Torn from some convulsing throat
they call you by name.