Fall 2001
Humberto Ak'Abal
translated by Pablo Medina
 
Wishful Thinking


Birds sing
in midflight,

and in midflight
they shit.

I stand and look:
my eyes follow them
until the line of my sight
gives out.

I would like to be a bird
and fly
and sign
and shit - but good-
on certain people,
on certain things