Guillermo Filice Castro
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into a hole
something of the self
always
disappears
light mother
tongue
into
mouths
and this morning
that
bunch
of hairs
peeled off
the drain
and dropped into the toilet
almost
as mournful a gesture
as a wreath
laid
in the ocean
Guillermo Filice Castro’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Barrow Street, The Bellevue Literary Review, Brooklyn Rail, Court Green, Ducts.org, LaFovea.org, La Petite Zine, Quarterly West, among others, as well as the anthologies My Diva, This Full Green Hour, Saints of Hysteria, and more. His translations of Olga Orozco, in collaboration with Ron Drummond, are featured in Guernica, Terra Incognita, U.S. Latino Review, and Visions. He’s the author of the chapbooks Cry Me a Lorca (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010) and Toy Storm (Big Fat Press, 1997). A native of Argentina, Castro has become a US citizen.