'Like Red-Hot Lava' by Maria Clara Sharupi Jua, translated by the Poetry Translation Workshop and Nataly Kelly

This week's poem is by Maria Clara Sharupi Jua from Ecuador. The poem is read first in English translation by Sarah Maguire and then in Shuar by Maria Clara Sharupi Jua. The poet draws on nature in order to express her desire, culminating in her longing to erupt ‘like red-hot lava / to roll like a stone turned to fire / into your salty arms’.

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