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Pilar Fraile Amador
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Pilar Fraile Amador
Pilar Fraile Amador is a Spanish writer and poet highly regarded for her writing across several genres. She has published the short story collection Los Nuevos Pobladores, as well as four poetry collections:  Falta (Ed. Amargord), Larva & Cerca (Ed. Amargord), La pecera subterránea (Ed. Amargord) and El límite de la ceniza (Prensas universitarias de Zaragoza). Her work (both translated and original) has appeared in diverse anthologies and magazines across the globe, and her anticipated first novel, Las ventajas de la vida en el campo, has just been released by Penguin Random House branch Caballo de Troya in March 2018.

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Vol. 80
Ways of Water
Spring 2023
Edited by Bradford Morrow

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September 20, 2023
The Rachel stands tuned  
            to multiplicities, 
aslant in a territory of longing,
            where she becomes foreign.

            What has she found?
She listens, acknowledges another sound,
            diffuse, multiple,  
pulsing thought, oscillations, whisperings,
            never only one.
September 13, 2023
I had yet to discover the source of that star, it came and it passed but from where it sprang and then fell to fading remained a mystery. In cycling its light lent its powers to coloring my tablecloth a lighter shade, relieving pigment from its duty to darken, except for those spots where I placed my bottles and cups, shielding only parts of the piece from fading, threads left closer to their original hues hewed to others abandoned as wraiths to their fates, a darker ring the mark of those who stayed behind.
September 6, 2023
Where the trees blackened, I saw,

Quickly, three deer lean into goldenness.

It seems, although wildfires rage

Out of control, this world remembers

Some portion of its first purposes:

Superfluous beauty