The Spring Campaigns
Other men remember the false gardens
of love, and the days they were in love
or thought they were in love, and others
the books they read as children, books that marked
their lives forever, though they couldn’t know
in those days how the real world operates.
And all of them take comfort in this way
and even grow enthusiastic when
they realize that memory can shape
itself at will and provide the things
that love and books and gardens can’t provide.
I remember what I didn’t undertake:
more than anything, the spring campaigns.
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About the Author
Julio Marínez Mesanza was born in Madrid in 1955. His books include Europa, Las trincheras, and Soy en mayo, appeared in 2007.
Don Bogen’s fourth book of poetry, An Algebra, will be published this fall. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati.
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