Never Alone

always
this caressing
Wind

this Earth
whispering
to our feet

this boundless
desire
of being

grass
tree
corazón

Francisco X. Alarcón, “Never Alone” from From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2020 by Francisco X. Alarcón. Reprinted with the permission of The University of Arizona Press.