YOU ARE THE SUM OF ALL MY POEMS by Camincha

 

the one that says:
Why words?
They ruin the moment.
I know.
Better to allow my hands,
my breasts to bless you
my tongue,my hair,the juices
that flow through me to say it all.
Like a guitar by you pregnant with harmony.

the one that says:
Your words,they were the first to
penetrate me. Find shelter inside my body,
travel the course of my nerves,my spine.

the one that says:
My hombre
now you are completeÿ my hombre
for my vagina has penetrated you

the one that says:
Take me
in your hands
hungrily,anxiously and
drink,drink,drink,till we
have exhausted all known positions
and from our aching bodies we have
erased all other memories.

the one that says:
There is not a day
that I donØt think of you.

 

Camincha is from Miraflores,Lima,PerÏ. Calls the United States her second home and keeps close to her roots for she feels that "it is much easier to get where you want to go when you are proud of where you come from." Earned her M.A. in 1987 in Spanish Literature at San Francisco State University. A member of PEN. Is listed in A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. Was selected by KDTV for their segment "One of Ours" to honor her contributions to the Latin American community in the Bay Area. Her poems and short stories have been published in anthologies: Hard Love, Kaleidoscope, Four by Four, living room 2, Coloring Book. Also in Tight, Itcop, Minotaur, Passager, B.B.R./Visions IntØl, Bull Horn, Morena, Northwest, Literary Forum, CUPS, Poetry USA, Apocalypse 4, Zambomba and award winner Perceptions, in their issue dedicated to "The Best Poetry Since 1982." In Spanish in El Mensajero and The Pacifica Tribune. Online in soma.com 2003 in ravenchronicles.org, in wiredhearts.net Millennium Issue and February-March 2001 also in bryant.edu. Her translations in rioarts.com 2001-2003,.She also conducts an ongoing writerØs workshop in her home, is active in open mic, including bilingual poetry readings, such as Immigrant Voices. Participated in 1st Annual Poetry Video at Sacred Grounds Caf³, San Francisco. Was a panelist at KQED City of Poetry Celebration and at San FranciscoØs Mission Cultural Center for La Quinceaøera celebration. Has desktop published three chapbooks, WHERE I COME FROM, WHERE I AM GOING,DE DONDE VENGO A DONDE VOY, 1992. INDECENT EXPOSURE/EXHIBIC”N IMP"DICA, 1993. And WHY DO I THINK OF DEAD PEOPLE AT POETRY READINGS? 1996.