Still Life

By Roberto Tejada b. 1964 Roberto Tejada

We’d often

been included in

the weather, whose

changes (as in the

still, portending

darknesses of after

noon) were hardly

evident, if even

manifest at all.

The August rain

over Mixcoac

& the deadening

of all aspect

at a distance:

yet our sudden

wet bodies, firm

swelling divested

finally of shirts

& trousers, left

beside turbid

footprints on

the tiled floor;

this tongue, these

lips the lightning

over the unchartered

landscape of your

thigh: successive

terra nova to

resist the still

life of the body

Roberto Tejada, "Still Life" from Mirrors for Gold. Copyright © 2006 by Roberto Tejada. Reprinted by permission of Krupskaya.

Source: Mirrors for Gold (Krupskaya, 2006)

Biography

An art historian, curator, and editor specializing in Latino and Latin American art, Roberto Tejada was born in Los Angeles. He earned a BA in comparative literature from New York University and a PhD in interdisciplinary media studies from the English Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of the poetry chapbooks Gift & Verdict (1999) and Amulet Anatomy (2001) as well as the full-length . . .

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