Virgil Suárez
Caliban as Carbonero
He brings the wood to the old man’s house
everyday, watches as the old man’s hands tremble,
his thick British accent, his burnt, ochre eyes,
the frailty of his frame, and behind the old man,
his daughter, fairskinned, virginal, like in the wood
bearer’s dream when he holds her and she isn’t even
repelled by his scent of tree sap and fish carcass,
carbonero him, maker of charcoal which he sells
by the pound door-to-door, whistling a love song
as he goes, and they make eye contact, the old man’s
daughter and him, the radiance of her simple flower
dresses, graceful in how she leans against the door frame,
light bursts forth behind her, this golden apparition
that keeps him coming back, in this god-forsaken
island where everyone is a prisoner, where love
burns holes through the palms of his hands, glows.
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