Heaviness.
Time nullifies the present,
it poisons future words.
Actions repeat themselves:
I breathe the same air,
the same place
the same memories.
Heaviness.
In Los dioses s hablan (The Gods, in Truth, Speak), Claudia Quackenbush voices her encapsulated feelings and experiences that she has enjoyed since her marital romance-maternal expressions, sociopolitical thoughts, even her intimate memories, sending the reader to a world of love which breaks barriers and envelops time. Through her poems, one can envision a love for God and nature, peace, optimism, nostalgia, illusions, desire, as well as memories, all viewed through a novel expression of poetry that for the author:
is the conceptual image that
produces desire
and thrusts creativity and life forward.
Quackenbush's poems are verses that seek to develop our:
dreams,
intellect,
illusions,
sensations,
a sense of longing.