En tus ojos nacen cielos
nos miras desde arriba
con tu dedo largo
dibujas sobre la tierra
trazas lineas vagas, garabatos
dando forma a tus ideas,
el desierto tu papel periodico
esta tierra tu cuaderno borrador
Y si al final estas satisfecho
solo basta una palabra: Nazca!
In your eyes skies are born
you watch us from above
with your long finger
you doodle on the earth
tracing haphazard lines, scribbles
giving form to your ideas
the desert is your newsprint
this land your sketch book
and if at last you are satisfied
only one word is necessary: Be born!
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She is the winner of the 2021 Unbound Book Festival Emerging Poet Award, the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize, and in 2018 was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Prize from Letras Latinas. Lupita is completing an MFA in Creative Writing - Poetry at the University of Florida, and will be a staff scholar at Bread Loaf Translators Conference in June 2023. 
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