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Triangulation 6: Stirrings—Remociones
22″ x 30″
Watercolor and ink
2006
Ricardo Morin
November 2025
Oakland Park, Florida
Author’s Note
Stirrings is a four-part haiku cycle that traces the quiet movement from openness to pain, from endurance to renewal. Each poem enters the body—breath, joints, thought, sweetness—to reveal how life continues in fleeting moments of air, light, and vitality. The sequence is presented in parallel English and Castilian Spanish.
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heart thrown wide
breath cradled in blood—
the world stirs the air
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corazón abierto
el aliento en la sangre—
el mundo agita el aire
II
joints drawn tight
thought held within pain—
the day lifts its light
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articulaciones tensas
el pensamiento en el dolor—
el día alza su luz
III
may I be love
through the deepening lows—
to rise once again
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que yo sea amor
en estos hondos descensos—
para alzarme otra vez
IV
sweet peaches warm
their juice the taste of life—
as if death forgot
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melocotones tibios
su jugo el sabor de la vida—
como si la muerte olvidara
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