My Friend Has A Bridge

(For Nina and Paul in Oakland)
By Pablo Armando Fernandez

My friend has a bridge
that brings and takes her (she is always returning)
the love of the loved one, to the lover.
This bridge is made of steel and rock and light.
	My friend has a bridge full of life and world,
a bridge made of struggle, of courage and work.
over pass the day and the night, pass the seasons
the people who work, and their sorrow and hope:
those who fought daily against hate and death.
	My friend is in the arms of her love
and someone sings till the day that dawns.
	The arms of my friend and her lover
their lips, their bellies, and their legs
intertwined can unite the old world
across the bridge
and make it new like the sun, life.


                 Translated from the Spanish by Nina Serrano

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