Lucía Estrada is a Colombian poet and the author of seven collections of poetry. She has won numerous local and national awards, including the National Poetry Prize for her most recent collection, Katábasis. Her work has appeared in a variety of national and international publications and has been translated into English, French, Japanese, Greek, Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, and German. Eulalia Books will be publishing a bilingual edition of Katábasis later this year.
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[A flock of cranes]
A flock of cranes
crosses an ashen sky
the prophet is first to rise
black lines
cleave through the black air
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