"Cavern" by Camilla Skye

Every point of view

            is an approach

to defeat.

            We have survived

the voyages

            and the only ship

that sinks beneath us

            is the one that carries

the wealth

            of these days.

We tried

to preserve our testimonies

in books.

            We worshipped death

until it tired of

            searching for us

in the depths

            of this jungle.

All

            is lost.

Every word we write

            is erased

forever.

David Cruz

David Cruz is a Costa Rican poet and editor based in the United States. He earned an MFA in bilingual creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and is currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic studies at the University of Washington. Cruz is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Cine Fractal (New Aleph, 2023); Lazarus (Mantis Editores, 2022); A ella le gusta llorar mientras escucha The Beatles [She likes to cry while listening to the Beatles] (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2016); and Trasatlántico (Editorial Costa Rica, 2015). Cruz has been the recipient of several awards, including the 2011 Luis Cardoza y Aragón Mesoamerican Poetry Prize. He was also a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2020. 

Anthony Geist

Anthony L. Geist is a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington, having taught previously at Princeton, the University of Texas in San Antonio and Dartmouth College. He has published widely on Spanish and Latin American poetry, with an emphasis on the Generation of 27, the avant-garde and surrealism. He has also worked in visual studies, curating art exhibits and co-directing a documentary film on the Lincoln Brigade. His translation of the Peruvian poet Lucho Hernández was a finalist for the PEN Prize in 2016. He was knighted in the Order of Isabella the Catholic Queen with the rank of Cruz de Oficial.

Camilla Skye

Camilla (b. 1990, Denmark) is a Danish painter and photographer whose work focuses on visceral interpretations of the natural world through representational painting, drawing, and analog photography. Her imagery draws from both observation and memory, exploring the emotional resonance of landscapes and organic forms, and blending mood and place into expressive visual narratives.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations with Delphian Gallery, London, as part of Papier III (2025), and in Works on Paper 7 at Blue Shop Galleries, London (2025). Earlier exhibitions include the Grand Opening Exhibition at Kinship Studio in Bali (2019) and Maj Ferniseringsfest at Visual Attack Gallery in Copenhagen (2016). Her practice and artistic process have been featured in various publications, most recently in The Flying Fruit Bowl (2024), where she discussed the intersections of nature, intuition, and materiality within her work.

https://www.camillaskye.com