The night lingersin my hotel roomthe spilled winethe broken glassmore empty pages for meto fillwith the hornsummoning the dead of the republicback to Estremadurablood soakedlike a bullringI smell the stainsof the moonon the crumpled bed sheets
The 84th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena
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Copyright © 2021 by Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena.
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Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena currently lives in the Philippines with his wife, Xandy. He is the author of the chapbook, The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening (Jacar Press). His work has appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Osiris, Louisiana Literature, The American Journal of Poetry, The Adirondack Review, The Louisville Review, and the San Pedro River Review, among others.
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