Compañera
We should have bolted you down like
a piece of iron sculpture and
pointed you in another direction
but you were busy looking for love
in the wrong dictionary
looking for a sweet papa
in the wrong encyclopedia

& now I say to myself
Ana is dead
not alive
not returning
what would she think of that

She arrived in the Apple
to jog around the park
have lunch with friends
create sculpture
install exhibitions
& get intellectual stimulation from
a drunk lover who swears
he did not throw her
out of the window
so why say
performance artist takes a dive
political thinker leaves in a huff
short intense Cuban shows her anger
big orphan mouth sculptor leaps

Ana did not leap
because Ana knew
Ana could not fly