Jorge Quintana is an undocumented poet and actor from Sacramento, California. A recent graduate from Sacramento State, his poetry has been featured in Quarterly West Magazine. Working under the mode of psychedelic surrealism, Jorge deconstructs his love, masculinity, ethnicity, and spirituality. His goal for his work is to create pieces that teach readers and audience members a little bit about the way they love.
Loving in bilingualism
aquí, yo detengo tu dulzura
con manos hechas de cartón.
here, I love you like a saint,
until they hang me by my heels.
mi amor eterno con boca
que devora a los cielos.
your love is a hunger
my teeth wait for.
mi tesoro de oro,
de plata, de miel.
swallow me before the trees do,
before the skies do.
ábreme sin usar tu manos.
hold me open like
mouths in holy communion.
devuélveme mi cuerpo entero.
give me back my body
and you can keep your faith
around my neck.
allá, tu te pierdes entre las oscuridades.
there, I lose you to silence.
mi amor, mi tesoro, mi vida eternamente
enterrada entre tus manos.
my love, my life, my tongue in
eternal return to you.
a death. a cycle.
a river broken in two.
ojos ahogados bajo el sol.
a sun that never sets.
vientos viejos que nunca mueren.
a cumbia that never stops playing.
words that don’t need translating.
Rebecca Blanton (aka Auntie Vice) is a writer and podcaster. She picked up creative writing after years as an academic and policy analyst. After publishing her first nonacademic work, Love Letters to a Unicorn, she started ghost writing erotica and autobiographies. Her works include her award-winning blog, LoveLettersToAUnicorn.com, several top selling sex and romance books, and over two dozen erotic novels. She also occasionally performs as a stand-up comic and storyteller.
To Langston
(A reply to “To Artina” by Langston Hughes)
You have taken my heart
You have taken my soul from my body
As though you were my God
I am fulfilled
by the touch of your hand
and sweet lips alone.
You possess my heart
and own my soul.
You are God to me
