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UMBRAL

Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Stars That Fell

The stars that fell did not fail. Each one that crosses the night sky …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Salt and Water

The ocean is the earth's saliva. It is the taste of what it remembers. When you cry, you are practicing …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

The Radix and the Flower

Beneath the flower there is a stem. Beneath the stem …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Dance of Elements

Fire dances with air — he gives it shape, she gives it motion. …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Threshold of Morning

There is a moment between night and day when the sky does not know …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Water Goddess

She lives where the light does not reach. She does not fear the depths because she is the depths. …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

The Path of Ink

Ink does not know where it is going when it touches the page. It only knows it cannot …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Source

It is not a place. It is not a person. It is not a god with a face …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Awake

You do not wake once. You wake a thousand times. You wake when the poem enters. …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

The Radix

Before the sun learned its own name, before the moon knew it could pull, there was a root — …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Moon Pull

She does not shout. She does not burn. She pulls. …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

The Elements Speak

Fire says: transform. I am not destruction. I am change wearing the costume of flame. …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Indigo Threshold

There is a color the eye cannot name where blue surrenders to violet and violet surrenders to dark — …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Ink in Water

This is how it begins: A single drop of indigo falling toward clarity …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Star Song

Each star is a syllable in a language older than language. When you look at the night sky, …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

God, Goddess, Source

I do not argue about the name. Call it God — and I will show you the mountain that has stood for millennia …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

The Threshold

I did not find my voice. My voice found me — the way light finds the crack in the dark, …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

The Sun Doesn't Ask Permission

The sun does not ask permission to shine. It does not wait for you to be ready. It does not consult your pain …

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Adriana Gaïan

Poem

Infinite

There is no end. There is no straight line in the spirit. Only curves that return, …

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