José Eugenio Sánchez (Guadalajara, México, 1965) is the author of jack boner & the rebellion (Almadia, 2014), suite prelude: a/h1n1 (Toad Press, 2011), Galaxy limited café (Almadia, 2011), escenas sagradas del oriente (Almadía, 2009), la felicidad es una pistola caliente (Colección Visor de Poesía, España, 2004), and physical graffiti (Colección Visor de Poesía, España, 1998).
in the last footage taken of the prime minister
you can see him happy toying with his whip in the aromatic breeze
off the flowering garden
his hands—open like boards—slowed the landscape’s
languid movement
and his rough laughter put flocks of nightingales to flight
in the distance
on the lake’s edge
spoiled crocodiles with open jaws
spurned the mutilated bodies of a few prisoners and their families