DIANA GARZA ISLAS (b. 1985, Mexico) has published Caja negra que se llame como a mí (Bonobos, 2015), Adiós y Buenas tardes, Condesita Quitanieve (El Palacio de la Fatalidad, 2015) and Catálogo razonado de alambremaderitas para hembra con monóculo y posible calavera (Conarte, 2017). Part of the work included in this cycle appears in her anthology En el fondo todo poema es yo de niña mirándola (La Cleta Cartonera, 2018). She has published excerpts of other projects as the pamphlets Primer infolio de las vidas reunidas de Almería Smarck (2021) and La czarigüeya escribe (2014).
the foam
but say foam
and that poem I decreed
you’ll bite
caramel sphinxes in the sponginess
(for them)
This exquisite poem attempts the tender job of building an island in the foam and then breaking it down to sea level giving us quite the heady experience.
