Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

En el Cerro Santa Lucía

Espejos hechos caudales, lluvias transparentes
nos iluminan en el Cerro Santa Lucía:
por el cielo harto, cristalino, de mediodía
vibran ondas intensas, andinas, relucientes.

Subimos y bajamos, en curvas cual serpientes,
entre estatuas, arcos, fuentes, untada alegría.
Con prisa o con pereza llega la epifanía
de vernos y conocernos entre tantas gentes.

Y en el silencio de la cima, el gran panorama:
la ciudad tendida, la cordillera pintada;
la brisa que nos abraza, a veces aun a besos,

y nos susurra, con cosquillas, el común drama
de la jornada del sol por la noche tapada
y la sangre fugaz que surge de nuestros huesos.

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