"En el Jardín de los Espejos Quebrados, Caliban Catches a Glimpse of His Reflection" by Virgil Suárez

In this poem, Virgil Suárez reimagines the character of Caliban from Shakespeare's play The Tempest.
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  1. slat
    equip or bar with slats
    He thinks of the old man's

    daughter, her feather-soft hands, the way she’ll smile
    up at her dresser mirror, as if she knows this secret
    of slatted images on a pond’s surface.
  2. hunch
    round one's back by bending forward
    He hunches

    close to the ground, where the warmth from the day’s
    heat coils about his naked, swollen feet.
  3. aimless
    drifting without direction
    Yo soy el hombre sin rumbo, el hombre en las tinieblas
    de los días y las noches . . . aimless and uprooted,
    the way a porpoise frolics on the crest of the waves
  4. uproot
    move forcibly from a homeland into a new foreign environment
    Yo soy el hombre sin rumbo, el hombre en las tinieblas
    de los días y las noches . . . aimless and uprooted,
    the way a porpoise frolics on the crest of the waves
  5. frolic
    play boisterously
    Yo soy el hombre sin rumbo, el hombre en las tinieblas
    de los días y las noches . . . aimless and uprooted,
    the way a porpoise frolics on the crest of the waves
  6. crest
    the top line of a hill, mountain, or wave
    Yo soy el hombre sin rumbo, el hombre en las tinieblas
    de los días y las noches . . . aimless and uprooted,
    the way a porpoise frolics on the crest of the waves
  7. manatee
    sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America
    a manatee’s weight sinks it into the wavering penumbra
    of a river’s depth.
  8. waver
    move or sway to and fro
    a manatee’s weight sinks it into the wavering penumbra
    of a river’s depth.
  9. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
    a manatee’s weight sinks it into the wavering penumbra
    of a river’s depth.
  10. welt
    a raised mark on the skin
    Fourteen scars on his scalp, his fingers
    know the story, each welt, the piece of his right ear

    missing, sliver of cartilage, a nose broken too often.
  11. sliver
    a small thin sharp bit of wood, glass, or metal
    Fourteen scars on his scalp, his fingers
    know the story, each welt, the piece of his right ear

    missing, sliver of cartilage, a nose broken too often.
  12. cartilage
    tough elastic tissue, mostly converted to bone in adults
    Fourteen scars on his scalp, his fingers
    know the story, each welt, the piece of his right ear

    missing, sliver of cartilage, a nose broken too often.
  13. surge
    rise upward under the influence of a force such as a wave
    In this island of all things

    broken, shifted, he isn’t the only one damaged by history,
    by the way storms surge and ravage, uprooted royal
    palms everywhere, roof shingles like buried hands,

    so red, so blue, to call this man a beast you must bow.
  14. ravage
    cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
    In this island of all things

    broken, shifted, he isn’t the only one damaged by history,
    by the way storms surge and ravage, uprooted royal
    palms everywhere, roof shingles like buried hands,

    so red, so blue, to call this man a beast you must bow.
  15. shingle
    building material used as siding or roofing
    In this island of all things

    broken, shifted, he isn’t the only one damaged by history,
    by the way storms surge and ravage, uprooted royal
    palms everywhere, roof shingles like buried hands,

    so red, so blue, to call this man a beast you must bow.
Created on Thu Jul 12 15:43:47 EDT 2018 (updated Thu Jul 12 15:58:55 EDT 2018)

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