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City Art Magazine

(Seattle, WA, USA)

2018 Seattle Mayor’s Arts Award Recipient

Cuban poet Jorge Enrique González Pacheco makes every word stand for a hundred or perhaps a thousand others

INVENTARIO DEL TRANSITO

Publisher‏: ‎ Ápeiron Ediciones
Publication date: ‎ 15 Oct. 2026
Edition: ‎ 1st
Language: ‎ Spanish
Print length: ‎ 130 pages

Inventory of Transit is a poetry collection that explores the human condition through the realms of memory, exile, love, and loss. Through an intimate and reflective voice, Jorge Enrique González Pacheco transforms transit, between countries, affections, grief, and hopes, into the central axis of a body of writing that examines what remains when everything seems to change. The absence of the mother, the uprooting from Cuba, the immigrant experience, the fragility of human bonds, nature, and the search for meaning converge in a work that eschews sentimentality in favor of a poetry of profound emotional honesty. The book moves between free verse, poetic prose, and haiku, constructing a mosaic in which the personal acquires universal resonance. More than simply documenting loss, Inventory of Transit celebrates the human capacity to endure, love, and rebuild oneself amid uncertainty. It is an invitation to journey through the inner landscapes of memory and discover that, even as time transforms all things, poetic language can preserve what truly makes us human.

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HABANA

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HABANA

Could you contain my sighs of solitude
by harboring the anxiety in this fragile sea?
On your streets lies the tenderness, aging,
incandescent wind shelters and recalls
them in the distance
the flame anchored in your colors.

Habana,
Lucid, shadowed reminiscent garden
in an infinite insomnia
harnessing the dawn.
Throbbing uniquely,
uniquely understanding,
following the beat, freshness,
watercolor eyes of the city.
Giraldilla, proclamation, mystery,
chaste voice in a calm urge.
I consecrate your vitreaux,
sensing your baroque capitals,
Dusty, unraveled.
I'd like to talk:
Game, rainbow, love,
people, noise, cars;
Essays on flavors.
A captivated rumor,
your arbor dances a naked certainty:
A park, a cloud, summer, God.
The boundary hurts the clef,
the litany resorts to music,
when the stars nurse your elusive chant.

Far… blood calls for your passion,
languishing, nobody edifies it,
in the absent dwelling of your sun, your moon.
The corner dwellers come to my mind,
the adjacent towns, trembling bedrooms.
I seek within you, dear city,
that home, The Cathedral,
that childhood, concrete flesh,
mother's kiss fading goodbye:
upholds my venerated memories.

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