Archipelago

"Letter to the Ones We've Lost," 2009, Catalina Viejo Lopez De Roda

Archipelago

Instead of letterforms
our correspondence will be made
from the surviving islands of nail polish
eroding on my fingers

or in the green flowers made from stem
called purslane or moss rose
that assert themselves as weeds in the seam
between house and drive

There are endless ways to speak
when speaking is impossible

The lit up windows of neighbors
in blue night Clothesline with yellow
handkerchiefs Pennants made from rooms
crafted against the darkness

[Image above by Catalina Viejo Lopez De Roda]