WHO AM I?
I am a fisherman
of ideas.
I am a worker
of poetry.
I am a miner
of the deep
vein of thought.
I am a farmer,
sowing words.
I am a gardener
of flowered prayers.
I am a policeman
of grammatical law.
I am a lawyer
defending my right
to have
a mother and father.
I am an architect
of creation
and its structures.
I am an engineer
of the foundations
of a good poem.
I am the nurse
for a poem about pain.
I am simply
Alejandro Mujica-Olea, poet.
Translation by:
Monique James & Belkis Possamai