DARK MATTER (EXCERPT)

They come in, go out, celestial hedgehogs,
galloping to exhaustion. Refractions and magma.
Gravitation. The houndstooth jacket hung on
the chair. The bags (and their petitions) hung on
the chair. The present circumstances take fear’s
edge off. Those flashes. Coming from every direction.
The stain offers a view into the transfer of visible
to invisible, and, conversely, as a principle of
what is, or what will be, or what was. Strings and
variations on bowlines, hitches. And its name was
fire, crushing depth, blackest stroke in the sky of
obstinate wariness.

            For Abraham Chavelas, partner in sight.

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from Dark Matter--published by Greying Ghost

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Rocío Cerón is a Mexico City-based poet, essayist, and visual sound artist. Cerón is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including Nudo vortex/Vortex Knot (Literal, 2015), Borealis (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2016), Imperio/Empire (Ediciones Monte Carmelo, 2008), and Diorama (MacNally Jackson-Díaz Grey Editores, EUA, 2013; translated by Anna Rosenwong, winner of the Best Translated Book Award 2015 from Rochester University). Her work has been awarded the Owen National Poetry Prize and the National System of Art Creators of Mexico. Cerón was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023 and received the Michael Rothenberg International Poets Grant in the same year. She has released three sound poetry albums, Sonic bubbles, Miiuni, and Speculari, and her sound, visual, and performance poetry pieces have been exhibited in international venues and museums including the Southbank Centre, London and the Museum of Modern Art, Mexico. Julio Ortega, one of Latin America’s most acclaimed literary critics, chose her as one of the best women poets of her generation.

Dallin Law is a translator from the Spanish. He studied at the Literary Translation at the University of Iowa.