We present this work in honor of the poet’s 65th birthday.

Cuban
b. 1959
The dream grows
you have become a tree
Honey drips from the branches.
The silence grows
the poem is the night
that gives you a portal.
The rain grows
I barely get wet
inside your body.
The light grows
you are his reflection
on my dress.
Breathing increases
and we turn around naked
in the shadow.