A jar of pork fat<\/p>\n
from the small pig your rancheros<\/p>\n
slaughtered for New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n
El aceite del chancho,<\/em><\/p>\n miraculously slid through Atlanta customs.<\/p>\n The same nebulous color of<\/p>\n the clouds of Pe\u00f1as Blancas<\/em>, suspended<\/p>\n somewhere between a solid and a liquid.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A quart of coffee beans<\/p>\n (we picked together in Mulukuku).<\/p>\n Dark and urgent.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And three firm, white ovals of queso.<\/em><\/p>\n Salty and strong,<\/p>\n redolent of tropical pasture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What I have from you is<\/p>\n a longing I had long<\/p>\n surrendered as a delusion of youth.<\/p>\n Extravagant pleasure to be so<\/p>\n thoroughly investigated by your mind.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How many languages has your tongue?<\/p>\n What words would Neruda and Dario<\/p>\n use to illustrate the sunset<\/p>\n at Las Pe\u00f1itas Playa<\/em>?<\/p>\n Sultry, torrid stripes of color sliding<\/p>\n down into the Pacific after their creator.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We were thirty minutes late because<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the roads were cratered and horrible,<\/p>\n and we were twice held up by a band<\/p>\n of ni\u00f1os<\/em> stretching a rope strung with rags<\/p>\n across el<\/em> camino<\/em>, demanding coins.<\/p>\n Still there was so much beauty<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When our crappy, rented car jostled<\/p>\n near to death by the roads, refused to start,<\/p>\n you bit through the wire with your teeth and<\/p>\n made a fresh attachment to the battery<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and turned the key,<\/p>\n traveling onward to find<\/p>\n our dinner of whole fish, fried,<\/p>\n both head and tail arching off the plate.<\/p>\n And rum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Por supuesto, el ron<\/em>.<\/p>\n Fleur de Cana, that only tastes so perfect<\/p>\n south of the keys, with the pale orange<\/p>\n juice still warm from<\/p>\n strong-handed squeezing.<\/p>\n A bowl of small, tart limes and a whole<\/p>\n bucket of the coveted ice<\/p>\n bejewling our stilted and thatched dining<\/p>\n room open to the star\u2019s reflections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A jar of pork fat from the small pig your rancheros slaughtered for New Year\u2019s Eve. El aceite del chancho, miraculously slid through Atlanta customs. The same nebulous color of the clouds of Pe\u00f1as Blancas, suspended somewhere between a solid and a liquid. A quart of coffee beans (we picked together in Mulukuku). Dark … Continue reading What I Have From You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6873],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6873"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 10:09:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}