The Secret Muse of Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.—Buddha

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Her perfumed scent arrived

landing in his airspace at

this Paris aeropuerto. The author

dropped his pen, he was

instantly mesmerized by this

most captivating passenger,

he tried conjuring the most

magically realistic lines

but he stood in complete

awe of Silvana de Faria.

In his mind, Gabriel Garcia

kept pronunciando her name,

over and over. He longed

to speak to her, to enunciate

Silvana’s name like Neruda

reciting love poems to his

paramours. He kept mouthing

Silvana, but before Márquez

could speak up, his courage

failed him. Silvana sauntered

away, her clicking high heels,

resounding the most beautiful

cumbia percussion echoes

that would haunt his sueños

for years. Replaying this moment

lost between the sheets, Marquez

often tried reawakening his secret

muse, but she left him pondering

a vida of a hundred more years

in solitude.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adrian Ernesto is the author of Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions from Unsolicited Press, Between the Spine from Picture Show Press and La Belle Ajar & We Are the Ones Possessed from CLASH Books and Speaking con su Sombra with Alegría Publishing. Adrian is a Colombian-American poet who lives with his wife in Los Angeles with their adorably spoilt cat Woody Gold.

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