Francisco de Asís Fernández

The invention of constellations

Each day I step out to contemplate the immensity of the universe and to search the night for fissures in Heaven where gigantic angels enter and depart, passageways through which Lucifer returned as a prodigal son to ask his father for forgiveness. The angels know every corner of the universe because they created the routes for the stars to orbit, they invented the constellations, they painted the colors of the galaxies with the celestial fantasy of their dreams and they gave the stars their delicate brilliance. There are hundreds of millions of angels watching over the harmony of the universe, and there are hundreds of millions of angels above contemplating the ruin of men and women on earth.

The lark

The lark appeared in the world before the gods and from its song ambrosia and dreams were born. The lark sings to the spirits of fire, air, and water from wellsprings and the spirit of trees on earth and it sings to heaven when it takes flight. The lark was born in a small lagoon of nothing in infinite darkness before grinder sparks would make the stars, before white islands would appear so that a woman with blue lips could imitate the lark’s song.

Francisco de Asís Fernández is an important poet of Nicaragua, Chief of the Board of International Poetry Festival of Granada, Nicaragua; received Gold Medal of Honour of the National Assembly of Nicaragua, Cross of the Order of Civil Merit by King of Spain Juan Carlos I.