If Dawn Breaks Tomorrow Don't Forget to Look for My Existence in Your Fire

When does a poet write: when inspiration strikes, or when words become essential?
For Beatriz Ordóñez Mallarino, poetry springs from the whispers of the countryside at dawn, from the moon entering through her window, from the fleeting passage of swallows. For her, writing is enduring; and since her world is poetry, her life awakens in verse. This is how her first book was born.
In this second book, poetry refines itself in the silence of dawn, in minimal gestures, in the breathing of time.
For the author, a good poem has music and cadence: each verse is rhythm, each word fire. To write is to leave one's existence in the impetus of language. She writes so as not to silence life.