Month: December 2003

1. Do you enjoy the cold weather and snow for the holidays?

There’s no snow in Colombia… days are really sunny in December, but nights are cold. I enjoy this weather.

2. What is your ideal holiday celebration? How, where, with whom would you celebrate to make things perfect?

My ideal holiday celebration is the normal family gathering in Colombia, plus Minori.

3. Do you do have any holiday traditions?

Well, our family gathers together, and we do all those neat things Colombians usually do (Novena, good food, Christmas carols). Normal holiday traditions.

4. Do you do anything to help the needy?

Uh… not really. Well, the girl that used to clean our house has like six kids and her husband left her, she’s like 26, very young, so we usually give her our old clothes and toys.

5. What one gift would you like for yourself?

Apart from Minori’s presence, things are fine. If you want me to be wacky, I’d like a ticket to Japan.

7

days

out of the snow, into the sunlight

Where are you, cold hand in the snow?

Thousands of minuscule blades scratched your petals,

I used to kiss those petals amid watercolor skies.

Where are you, cold hand in the snow?

Your eyes had stored the stars, the night, the dew…

All crystalized now, gazing at intricate hexagons.

Under the sun I wait, Penelope, weaving nothing,

Hoping for you to walk out of this sea.

Liquid beads flow on my cheeks, a necklace, a disaster–

And you don’t send a message in the wild waves…

My water moves, yours is diamond powder.

My surface burns, you’ve become timeless.

Where are you, cold hand in the snow?

You’re the only hand I’d ever want to hold…

8

days

and the tension will fade like seafoam