Pablo Saborio

How could I begin

when the earth below me

clusters in great furrows of graphic skin

its glimmer trapped

in pockets of wrinkles

with the open slit of red dawn

the opening lips of a raw horizon

with my imaginary blood in its arc,

‘ how ’

in this awry mirror to begin

and inevitably

to end ?

This poem was extremely hard to decipher, however, i believe that the author is referencing his lover in saying that how can he begin when that which is his earth, his lover, is aged and grown without him. He references pockets of wrinkles and great furrows of graphic skin to reference the age with which his lover has gone on with life without him. He ends by saying "In this awry mirror to begin and inevitably to end" He is referring to how he is looking into what he has become and wondering how things could have gone so unplanned and how his life has gone awry and there is nothing he can do about it so now it must inevitably end this way. This poem is a powerful piece on the fruitlessness of his love and the toll it has taken on him.