17 Years of Slumber by Ana Armengod

F.I.N.E. Editions is delighted to announce the publication of 17 Years of Slumber by Ana Armengod. After decades of self-publishing her essays and prose, 17 Year of Slumber is her first book.

Indifferent to atonement
I’m more interested in the parallels,
of the spaces we inhabited.
And you can see them sit and linger on my
cupid’s bow.

It was days of preoccupation,
my blind eyes, on the floors above,
of the music below, my trembling hands.
of all my hiding, all that goddamn hiding.

I would sit endless nights, legs crossed
perched and uncomfortable.
Trying to understand and find myself
within all the ands, and the what ifs.

And you just sat below, unaware, unaffected.
Without knowing me, in no need of redemption.

Ana Armengod is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, MX, and living in Braddock PA. Armengod’s artistic vision is cohesive through all respective mediums: each pointillist drawing, 8mm film take, and poem providing another perspective.

Read more of Ana’s poetry now in Life Harvester: Issue 31