Dreaming in Noir 200

Fernando Esteban Flores

April 15, 2022

(Para los poetas Latino Americanos) 

Roberto Bolaño poeta Chileno 

Dreamt that I was awake

I offered him a shot of tequila

A glass of Pinot Noir

The poet’s blood

I said

He took the tequila

Uno no debe presumir

He replied Prefiero conservar

Mi sangre para la página

I prefer to conserve

My blood for the page

What do you do

Between the emptiness

& the loneliness

I asked

Lo que siempre hago

Dijo

What I always do

He said

Soñar 

Con los ojos abiertos

Dream

With my eyes open

Fernando Esteban Flores is a native son of Tejas, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, published three books of poetry: Ragged Borders, Red Accordion Blues, & BloodSongs available through Hijo del Sol Publishing, published in multiple journals, reviews, newspapers, and online sites, selected in 2018-19 by the Department of Arts & Culture of the City of San Antonio, with support from Gemini Ink for his poem Song for America V (Yo Soy San Antonio) as one of 30 poems/poets to commemorate the City’s Tricentennial anniversary, and recently named poetry editor of the Catch the Next Journal of Ideas & Pedagogy.