POEM, THE FOUNTAINS OF CANDELAS
This poem, and the other pieces from which it sprang is one of the most intriguing pieces that I have ever written. Not normally a believer in supernatural visitations, nor in spectral voices in my head, in my sleep, it seemed to me that one night that I heard a girl's voice speaking in a language that I did not understand. I have since come to think that this language was in fact Spanish; and this poem seemed to spring fully-formed into my mind, so that on the following morning, I simply had to... Sign in to see full entry.