If my
back laughs alone
it’s all your
fault:
you
have
not learnt how to tickle the front.
There is a place
on my neck,
on my thumb,
in a hidden
part of my
head, which
moves me like a puppet
it pulses it whispers
such wise instructions:
heal and live laugh and love
heartbeatheartbeat heartbeatheartbeat
Flor Aguilera García is a Mexican film critic, poet and fiction writer. She has four poetry books published under Praxis Mexico and one novel Diary of an Oyster published by Alfaguara. Her first poetry book in English, Muses and Musings will be coming out later this year under the auspices of San Francisco Bay Press.