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angela vicario is not a virgin:
by Lindsay SandersdonÂ’t call me clandestine.
my secrets were few until
my onceuponatime husband
undressed me before the world.
i used to sit in the window and
make cloth flowers as i watched
the world go by. the flowers
never found fault in me and i never
distrusted the blooms. petals are
lucid and cannot tell a lie.
and then one day he came.
music boxes strike my fancy even
less than sly men with golden eyes.
“please señor,” i sighed, “try to
win my love with gifts and riches.
the act is more than futile.”
the wedding came nonetheless-
days and nights of drunken celeb-
ration for no one but themselves.
i was exposed in the moonlight;
i stood before their eyes utterly
naked. and what a wretch they
saw in me.
si señor, santiago nasar es el
culpable.
yo no tengo secretos.
09/26/2004 Author's Note: part I of my a.p. lit project in which i wrote poems from the perspective of some of the characters in gabriel garcia marquez's chronicle of a death foretold.
Posted on 09/26/2004
Copyright © 2024 Lindsay Sanders
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by J. P. Davies on 09/28/04 at 02:42 AM Very cool, I haven't read it either. This is quite excellent though. I love blending languages. |
| Posted by Max Bouillet on 09/29/04 at 03:08 AM Exquisite style... the thoughts of the main character are so honest and emotionally sweeping that it takes several readings just to gain the true impact. Great read. |
| Posted by Tom Goss on 09/29/04 at 03:31 PM very nice, I read another of your poem's inspired by the same book and this one is best |
| Posted by Laura Doom on 09/29/04 at 10:27 PM a secret undressed has it's appeal deflowered
i appreciated a Spanish? conclusion that could be understood without a transcript and the whole piece was compressed but open, sectioned but integrated, a skillful rendition. |
| Posted by Ashok Sharda on 10/01/04 at 03:19 AM I see an outsiders view and not just a view but an experience from the outside and so intense so different. |
| Posted by Oscar Martínez on 10/05/04 at 07:52 AM Angela Vicario es en realidad la primera victima de la novela "Cronica de una muerte anunciada" (titulo original del autor), y es por el crimen de su propia virginidad perdida antes de su boda, que tiene sentido la obra. Por tanto, el significado oculto reside en que Angela acepta su propia sexualidad y se hace responsable por ésta, de ahi el verdadero crimen "social". No hay modo de conocer al personaje sí no hay acercamiento a la figura que promueve la muerte del primer amante y la ruptura del tabú de la "angelical virginidad" dónde todo halla sentido. Buena aproximación Lindsay. :) |
| Posted by Amy Wustrin on 10/05/04 at 06:22 PM Congrats on PoTD! Well deserved! |
| Posted by Stephanie Kent on 10/06/04 at 01:56 AM Congratulations:) This is just so powerful...succinct, yet brimming with vulnerability. Beautiful. |
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