Modern Day Celestina
by Guillermo Bowie
To actually survive certain acts
To still be participating in this plane of existence
With a modeled body upon the great classics of Greece and Rome
To be out in public in New York with her – on Prince or Canal Street arm in arm
With the modeled form from Judaic roots that displayed the finest attributes of that described
Jewishness
Was a reflection that manifested at each turn made
A beauty that reached certain internal ideas that were mine as an individual
When your father came to visit the wedded couple
The selected form of indicating, pointing with the finger saying that that man out on the lawn
was your father
And even to the heavens the fountain of Connecticut from which that amount of beauty derived was
known
To pass our days in Washington Square next to Prince Street
As it had been your idea for us to move to Greenwich Village
Activities found in a third matrimony
Being within the natural state of imprisonment
Forming a modeled testimony of shared adventures
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Sobrevivir ciertas actividades
De todavía estar participando en este plano de existencia
De cuerpo modelado como en clásicos griegos romanos
Estar en frente del público de new york con ella – la calle de prince o de canal brazo extendido a brazo
Con la modelada desde raíces judaícas que guardaba los mejores dinámicos del descrito judío
Estuviera un reflejo que marcara cada turno hecho
La belleza tocando a unos conceptos internos del yo
Dejando como cambio las ideas internas que guardara como individuo
Cuando vino el papá a visitor la pareja de maridos
La forma escogida para hacer el indicio, puntando con el dedo diciendo que ese hombre en el cesped
fuera tu papá
Y hasta los cielos conociera cual fuente de connecticut donde hubiera frutada tanta hermosura
Pasar nuestros días en washington square al lado de la calle prince
Siendo que era idea tuya de movernos a greenwich village
Acontecimientos ocurridas en tercer matrimonio
Estando en el caso natural de preso
Juntando una modelada testimonio de aventuras compartidas
BIO: Guillermo Bowie is a Portland, Oregon based writer. In 2025 he is published in Maryland Literary Review, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Gorko Gazette, Grey Sparrow Journal, Children, Churches, and Daddies, Book of Matches, Fowl Feather Review, forthcoming in Other Terrain, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, The Wise Owl, Hog Creek Hardin, Arrhythmia Magazine, Shoegaze Literary, and Heavy Crown Press. He has a B.A. from Portland’s Lewis and Clark College, a M.A. from Columbia University, a second M.A. in Spanish from New York University, studied Spanish at Harvard University, and did ½ of a Ph.D. in Spanish at the University of Oregon.