It's friday night. We enjoy a movie at the
Four Star where you place my unsuspected
hand on your lap to find your stem thick,
swelling under the rough blue jeans fabric.
It's friday night. The cold air stirs the
leaves in the maple trees. At the corner
your hands hold me against the wall,your
arms embrace me,your lips roam mine,go down
my neck,down my cleavage wedge themselves
between my breasts... and we turn the cold
into a bonfire,melt the fog,calm the wind,
bring out the stars and the moon.
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.
