EUGENIA POZAS

Contemporary Art

When we start painting portraits of people again,

I’ll search my drawers, pull out my sketches,

messy and sharp, and say: I have always drawn them.

The thing about loving people is

that it doesn’t linger on the abstract.

It demands of you a realness,

the fine trace of a pencil to contour the shape of a nose,

the right color to capture the eyes, piercing, alive,

and momentary.

Eugenia Pozas is a bilingual writer based in Monterrey, Mexico. Her first poetry collection in Spanish – Náufragos (Castaways) – was published in 2022 with 42 Líneas. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Dust Poetry Magazine, Stone Circle Review, The Basilisk Tree, Kaleidotrope, Sontag Mag, and Crowstep Journal. You can find her on Instagram and X as @eugepozas.