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Sergio Inestrosa (San Salvador, 1957) is a professor of Spanish and Latin American affairs at Endicott College, Beverly, MA. Sergio is a member of the Editorial Board of Tiberíades, Red Iberoamericana de Poetas y Críticos Literarios Cristianos, and of the Electronic magazine Cine y Literatura, based in Santiago de Chile. His last book of poetry was published by Almava (USA) in November 2019. Before that, the same publisher published Luna that He does not stop in a bilingual edition in Spanish / English. As a student in Mexico, the Iberoamerican University published his book Vivir la fiesta, in which he deals with the patron saint festivities in a town on the outskirts of Mexico City. In May 2019 Sergio participated in the Havana International Poetry Festival, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the founding of this city; in October of that same year, he participated in the XXII meeting of Ibero-American poets in Salamanca, which was dedicated to San Juan De la Cruz.

Migrant Christ

Sergio Inestrosa

Christ arrives tired, dirty, and hungry To the border.
This Christ comes from everywhere,
And it has taken the form of a child,
Of a woman, of an old man,
Of a young woman expecting a child,
Of the man who flees violence
And of the insulting poverty in his country.
This Christ, like all the others before him, seeks to reach his dream.
This Christ is about to cross the border, climbing the famous wall,
While he prepares, he says that there is no other way;
He says it loud, for all to hear,
Although only some will follow his example,
Others, perhaps out of fear, will continue to wait for a miracle.
There is no turning back, he tells them, once again,
Since we are so close to the longed-for dream.
Later it will be seen, he warns them, what that dream is made of
For each one of us.

— Sergio Inestrosa

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