Icarus
If we were meant to fly
God would have given us wings
my Grandma said
Long after
reading the Classics
I was impressed
by the fate of Icarus:
He got so close to the sun
his wax wings
melted
That’s why
I never take a plane.
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Jorge Etcheverry Arcaya is a Chilean-born poet, writer and translator. He lives in Canada. He has published poetry, criticism, lfiction, essays, art, and science fiction. His latest books are Clorodiaxepóxido (Chile 2017), Canadografía: antología de prosa hispanocanadiense (Chile 2017), Los herederos (2018), Samarkanda (Canada 2019), Outsiders (2020), and Orejas y vanguardias (Chile, 2024). His works have appeared in the anthologies Antología de la poesía chilena de la última década (Chile 2018) and Anthologie de la poésie chilienne, 26 poètes d’aujourd’hui (Francia 2021). He contributes regularly to the Chilean magazines Off the Record and Entre Paréntesis.
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