Marcelo Morales

Marcelo Morales is the author of The World as Presence/El mundo como ser. His previous books include El mundo como objeto, Materia, and a novel, La espiral. English translations from his newest works have appeared recently in Two Lines Journal, Seedings, and Mantis, among others.

Poetry The Ecstasy issue

Fragments From “Silent Mechanisms”

By Marcelo Morales

“When he wakes in the morning, the words lose their meaning, because there are things that like the jellyfish hold meaning only in their element.”