{"id":7973,"date":"2024-05-15T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2024-05-15T08:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T12:38:21","slug":"every-long-poem-feels-like-a-goodbye-this-is-not-a-long-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnightsunmag.ca\/every-long-poem-feels-like-a-goodbye-this-is-not-a-long-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"EVERY LONG POEM FEELS LIKE A GOODBYE \/ THIS IS NOT A LONG POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7973\" class=\"elementor elementor-7973\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-30f91fa0 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-content-top elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-items-bottom elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"30f91fa0\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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elementor-element-494cc5d7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"494cc5d7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: right;\">5. 15. 2024<\/h3><h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">EVERY LONG POEM FEELS LIKE A GOODBYE \/ THIS IS NOT A LONG POEM<\/h1><h3 style=\"text-align: right;\"><b><br \/><\/b><strong>Camila Valle<\/strong><\/h3><hr \/><div><p><br \/>a train crosses a border<br \/>windows that won\u2019t open<br \/>from the inside or<br \/>from the outside can\u2019t<br \/>outstretch my hand<br \/>to touch the passing leaves<br \/>7 million afternoon glows<br \/>I press my palms<br \/>to the glass<br \/>the leaves were made<br \/>for everyone but we<br \/>sit boxed in<br \/>tumbling through land<br \/>stolen cleared<br \/>tracks laid by human<br \/>hands and sweat snaking<br \/>one after the other<br \/>sometimes<br \/>when I lie down<br \/>at the park sun in my face<br \/>I think<br \/>only rich people were allowed to<br \/>do this for like hundreds of years<br \/>but not for most of human<br \/>history isn\u2019t that wild<br \/>floating over the ocean<br \/>we must answer to a man<br \/>in a vest with a gun<br \/>a tiny plastic box with my face<br \/>stamped on it<br \/>I am the box little and green<br \/>rumbling listening<br \/>to a saxophone or a clarinet<br \/>I am sorry<br \/>for closing my eyes and<br \/>not being able to make<br \/>out its shape carved out<br \/>of trees I will never see<br \/>another instrument assembled<br \/>by human hands and wind<br \/>a melodic expanse growing<br \/>the car sways<br \/>from side to side I half-expect<br \/>to graze a wall<br \/>of rock on our way and burst<br \/>like the universe did<br \/>on the staircase in 1971<br \/>my mother as a child<br \/>mistakes a condom for fallen<br \/>candy and dismayed turns<br \/>it over to her grandmother<br \/>all the doors closed all<br \/>the lights turned on<br \/>ceiling radiance<br \/>after ceiling radiance<br \/>seeping out from the bedroom<br \/>the sun<br \/>sets the trees orange<br \/>in an empty subway car<br \/>I watch it glide<br \/>behind a building free<br \/>on the boardwalk the sky<br \/>is pink and salty<br \/>a man plays a violin<br \/>an older couple slow dances<br \/>a puerto rican flag waves<br \/>sometimes coney island<br \/>is the most magical place<br \/>on earth<br \/>I share a birthday<br \/>with the wonder wheel<br \/>and agn\u00e8s varda<br \/>and memorial day until 1971<br \/>two years before the united states<br \/>ended conscription and<br \/>henry kissinger who<br \/>somehow is not dead<br \/>won the nobel peace prize<br \/>for napalming vietnam<br \/>more than 7 million neon clouds<br \/>they almost look like trees<br \/>sprouting deadly in laos<br \/>nearly one ton<br \/>for every person and<br \/>we are still<br \/>waiting for a rebirth<br \/>of wonder by the waves<br \/>I cradle<br \/>the sounds like sets of parentheses<br \/>on the first valentine\u2019s day<br \/>I spend alone<br \/>a man swaying crooning<br \/>to marvin gaye\u2019s I want you<br \/>on the subway platform<br \/>and I felt that<br \/>(it\u2019s too bad it\u2019s just too sad)<br \/>I am sure there is a saxophone on that<br \/>cover ernie barnes painted<br \/>in 1971<br \/>I buy a man<br \/>I don\u2019t know<br \/>a sandwich and a blanket<br \/>he drapes over himself<br \/>soft black wings and says<br \/>I love you in so many ways<br \/>right now I hope<br \/>you have 7 million babies<br \/>7 million babies with names<br \/>like hope and luz<br \/>I would sip mate<br \/>and bounce them on my lap<br \/>years would pass<br \/>and one day<br \/>they would be 13 or 14<br \/>and cry<br \/>because jim morrison<br \/>died in a bathtub in paris<br \/>on a july morning in 1971<br \/>and agn\u00e8s varda<br \/>was one of five people<br \/>at his funeral<br \/>they would board a train<br \/>crossing borders<br \/>real and imagined<br \/>with their 7 million dreams<br \/>and reach<br \/>for the light<\/p><p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><em>written before the death of Henry Kissinger in November 2023<\/em><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5436dd1e elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"5436dd1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-sun\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c72d8b3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5c72d8b3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div dir=\"auto\"><p>Camila Valle is a writer, editor, translator, and abortion <i>acompa\u00f1ante<\/i>\u00a0and educator. Her work has appeared in\u00a0<i>Interview<\/i>,\u00a0<i>\u201968 to\u00a0\u201905<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Science for the People<\/i>,\u00a0<i>In The Mood Magazine<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>Spectre Journal<\/i>, among other publications. Her translation of\u00a0<i>Set Fear on Fire: The Feminist Call that Set the Americas Ablaze<\/i> by the Chilean feminist performance collective LASTESIS is out from Verso Books.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2276c8ae elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"2276c8ae\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-45becb97 elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-phone\" data-id=\"45becb97\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-51d62b7b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"51d62b7b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fa57774\" data-id=\"fa57774\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-274b06d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"274b06d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div class=\"shariff shariff-align-flex-start shariff-widget-align-flex-start\"><ul class=\"shariff-buttons theme-default orientation-horizontal buttonsize-medium\"><li class=\"shariff-button twitter shariff-nocustomcolor\" style=\"background-color:#595959\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.midnightsunmag.ca%2Fevery-long-poem-feels-like-a-goodbye-this-is-not-a-long-poem%2F&text=EVERY%20LONG%20POEM%20FEELS%20LIKE%20A%20GOODBYE%20%2F%20THIS%20IS%20NOT%20A%20LONG%20POEM&via=midnightsunmag\" title=\"Share on X\" aria-label=\"Share on X\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"shariff-link\" style=\"; 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