Weekend Edition

"Six o'clock in the morning. How's your head?"

So begins a poem written this month by the Cuban writer Katherine Bisquet. She continues:

"Is it cold in Berlin?

I go to bed this morning - I'm trying to change my habits - with a complaint,

There's an animal in the front yard that eats the neighbor's pigeons.

The beast eats everything it sees in its path,

How can I tell it not to eat what doesn't belong to it?

Are there cypresses there?

Here the ceibas have lost their leaves