"That transport we live from time to time"
"As you know, I ponder often your possibilities"
"What good were it to me were I to transport you to a different time and place, and I not there?"
"Remember: the wind-up toy you played with as a child"
"If I persist, you say, I'll find still more of you"
"One does at times wonder at a word"

"Ese transporte que vivimos de vez en cuando"
"Como sabes, reflexiono a menudo tus posibilidades"
¿De qué me servía transportarte a un lugar y tiempo diferente, y no estar allí?"
"No olvides: el juguete de cuerda con el que jugaste cuando eras niño"
"Si persisto, dices, voy a encontrar aún más de ti"
"A veces nos asombramos por una palabra"

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Once a month I present a selection of my poems at Foro Cultural 81, an art gallery with small auditorium in Guanajuato city center. Humberto Hernández Herrera translates the poems into Spanish, and we read our versions of them in alternation.
 
This season, as well as the last, the poems presented are from my work-in-progress:  a novel in the form of a a poem-sequence, tentatively entitled THE ELOPEMENT.  

The narrator speaks in the first person, addresses very many of the poems to his younger friend.