Nothing knew your body

The moon emerged in a sky
barely divisible
from the dark waters.

Its appearance
agitated the bowels of the ocean.

A name began
to be murmured
hidden
in the murmur of the waves

Nothing knew
your body lying on the sand,
near the shore
being brushed by the salty humidity.

Nothing knew
your body
and yet,
it changed the rhythm
of the waves.

Bio of Mariela Cordero

Mariela Cordero. Valencia, Venezuela (1985) is a lawyer, poet, writer, translator and visual artist. Her poetry has been published in several international anthologies.She has received some distinctions among them:Third Prize of Poetry Alejandra Pizarnik Argentina (2014). First Prize of the II Iberoamerican Poetry Contest Euler Granda, Ecuador (2015). Second Prize of Poetry Concorso Letterario Internazionale Bilingüe Tracceperlameta Edizioni, Italy (2015) Award Micropoems in Spanish of the III contest TRANSPalabr@RTE 2015.First Place in International Poetry Contest #AniversarioPoetasHispanos mention literary quality, Spain (2016). Finalist Aco Karamanow International Poetry Prize, Macedonia (2022) Rahim Karim World Prize for Literature (2022). César Vallejo World Prize for Literary Excellence (2023) Sahitto International Prize for Literary Excellence (2023).She has published the collections of poems: El cuerpo de la duda Editorial Publicarte, Caracas,Venezuela(2013) Transfigurar es un país que amas (Editorial Dos Islas, Miami,United States (2020). La larga noche de las jaurías Editorial Nautilus, Spain (2023) She has participated in several international literary meetings and festivals, among them: The Princeton Festival United States), Festival Internacional de Poesía Parque Chas (Argentina), Festival Internacional Bitola Memoria Literaria, Festival Internacional de Poesía Xochimilco (Mexico), X Festival Iberoamericano de Fusagusagá (Colombia) 2023 Kaohsiung World Poetry Festival (Taiwan). Her poems have been translated into Hindi, Czech, Estonian, Serbian, Shona, Uzbek, Romanian, Macedonian, Korean, Hebrew, Bengali, English, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Polish.He currently coordinates the sections #VenezuelanPoetry and #WorldPoetry in the Poetry Magazine Poémame (Spain). Active member Venezuelan Writers’ Circle, established in 1989.