Second Friday Gelato Poetry: Olga Gutierrez-Garcia

Join us for poetry -- yours and mine! We will be back at our regular location -- upstairs at Gelato Vero. Our guest feature is novelist and poet, Olga Gutierrez-Garcia, followed by an open mic. Olga is the editor of the bilingual anthology of SD Poetry Annual and a member of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. Her pseudonym enriKetta luissi has written one novel, El Peso de los Ovarios, and nine books of poetry: Ostrich Sky, Disclosed, In Vitro, Poetica Mathematica, Binaria, Dark Matter, IIE, Re-Versed and Emily.

Diaphanous
for Olga

she loved tarantulas as much as I loved morphine
she liked Hermes scarves and Chanel shoes

to be happy: we set the exchange of words between us in 200 per week and
agreed to kiss only

in Paris in Bangkok in the geometry of vodka
on the bathroom’s tiles
we kissed

we kissed with hammers and insurrect tongues
with rotten brains and bras with cancer

in every kiss our dead mothers

when we didn’t kissed, we would stare endlessly at each other
until we collapsed

when in her vulva I smashed irrational numbers and the hypotenuse of God
she said I can’t take it any longer and vanished

Diáfana
para Olga

amaba las tarántulas tanto como yo la morfina
gustaba de bufandas Hermès y sacos Chanel

para ser felices fijamos el intercambio de palabras en doscientas por semana y
acordamos solo besarnos en París en la geometría del vodka
en Bangkok en los azulejos del baño nos besamos

nos besamos con martillos y lenguas insurrectas
con sesos podridos y brassieres con cáncer

en cada beso la madre muerta

si no nos besábamos
nos contemplábamos hasta el agotamiento

cuando en su vulva machaqué números irracionales y la hipotenusa de Dios
dijo no puedo más y se esfumó