Rooftop Poetry Club - Jennifer Bressette

Jennifer Bressette

Bio:
Francisco Aragón is the author of Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press) and editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press). His poems and translations (from the Spanish) have appeared in various anthologies and journals. The founding editor of Momotombo Press, he directs Letras Latinas—the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Poems:

Abstraction

His blue eyes
Reveal a profound deepness
A distraction
From reality, I float away
Into a never ending dream

In a glance
I Shape his lips
Curve his nose
Beauty
Simplicity
I see

His finger tips
Caress my bare skin
A sensation
Touching me: my soul
Into unknown truth

A silent whisper
Hidden within the heavens
Like a breath upon my neck
Dreams, hope, future
Fingers intertwined
I know

His eternal desire
On the surface
A revelation
Staring, once again
Into his deep blue eyes
I trust