Museum of Ash

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Your eyes
are a comfortable religion
for those poems
which want to find
a last hope.
I am your fervent devout.
I make for you this sacrifice
of pagan words
written in Pompeii
in an imaginary bonfire.
I am a museum of ash.

Original version in Spanish:

MUSÉU DE POVISA

Por Xe M. Sánchez

Los tos güeyos
son una relixón afayadiega
pa los poemes
que nagüen por atopar
una cabera esperanza.
Ero’l to devotu fervorosu.
Faigote esti sacrificiu
de pallabres paganes
escrites en Pompeya
nuna foguera imaxinaria.
Ero un muséu de povisa.

Header photograph © Clarabelle Fields.

About the Author

Xe M. Sanchez

Xe M. Sánchez was born in 1970 in Grau (Asturies, Spain). He received his Ph.D in History from the University of Oviedo in 2016, he is anthropologist, and he also studied Tourism and three masters. He has published in Asturian language Escorzobeyos (2002), Les fueyes tresmanaes d’Enol Xivares (2003), Toponimia de la parroquia de Sobrefoz. Ponga (2006), Llué, esi mundu paralelu (2007), Les Erbíes del Diañu (E-book: 2013, Paperback: 2015), Cróniques de la Gandaya (E-book, 2013), El Cuadernu Prietu (2015), and several publications in journals and reviews in Asturies, USA, Portugal, France, Sweden, Scotland, Australia, South Africa, India, Italy, England, Canada, Reunion Island, China and Belgium.

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