Fernando de la Cruz Herrera (Yucatán, México, 1971) holds an MA in Spanish from Ohio University and a BA in Philosophy. As an independent editor, writer, and cultural promoter, he has participated in cultural festivals, conferences, and book fairs in Mexico, Cuba, France, and the United States. His poems appeared in literary magazines and anthologies. He has received two national poetry awards in Mexico. His main passions are poetry (which he often finds in theatre, music, film…), language teaching made fun, and the constant discovery of the flavors, shapes, and depths of human life. These are the first poems that he writes directly in English - delacrux@hotmail.com, ld268006@ohio.edu.

An L-Shaped Scar

Scary thing, a scar.
One would think it´s fully healed,
and it´s nothing but a scratch
in the diary of misfortune.

I could tell you L number of stories of how I got it.
I´m starting to forget which one is real.
They all hurt the same.

I could tell as many more
about you and I, and maybe
I could convince myself that they were true.

Scary thing, the truth hiding behind
the infinite spellings of a single, capital scar.

But this one: you may read it as you will,
it´ll always say L.

Scary,
the things that start with L.