Victoria Marín Fallas (San José, Costa Rica) is a Classical Philologist from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and author of La Edad de Hierro (2022). She is the Director of Revista Virtual Quimera and Chief Editor at EEUCR. Marín coordinates the books Anábasis: Antología de Narrativa Fantástica y Ficción Histórica (2021), El Legado (2023), and Los Hijos del Fuego (2024). She won the 14th Creative Writing Contest in Foreign Languages (University of Costa Rica) in the Portuguese poetry category and received First Honorable Mention at the 2024 Brunca Literary Competition for her poetry collection Hay un Nido Bajo mis Párpados.
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Here I am.
I also sought
the love and memory
in the food of the dead;
but now
the reunion space
is but white upon the white
of a strange page,
the transit of wider
and dimmer places.
Of flowers,
it is but the name
that I remember;
the will to flee,
the erect stalks,
whose offering
takes place in the void,
where none behold them,
and they don’t yearn
for substance
nor being.
However,
there’s a distant shade.
I plunge.
I am a fragrance apparition
of ineffective purity
outside of song.
Sometimes I’m another one,
who breaks open
to the hum of stone;
ascendant echoes
between dark locations.
They all lead to my womb
and constellate desire.
Sometimes I’m another one,
much taller,
of hairs that fuse
with the wind inlaid
in the fog;
and I sway like cane
with its solar grain,
indissoluble,
at peace,
unreachable,
with nothing to tell.
