Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

The Compass

TS Hidalgo's works have been published in magazines in the USA, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Germany, UK, France, Spain, Turkey, Ireland, Portugal, Romania, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, India, Singapore and Australia.

The compass

Where do you have the compass?
they asked us
at the crossroads
(in the green daybreak).
Where is the compass?
they searched
the pigsty,
and Umbral in his big car
brought us to police station,
where is the compass?
to buy transfers, and ink,
where?
cold sweat of dawn and madness,
where is the compass?
after the Fallas
of paper and chocolate,
where?
rumor of Clamoxyl
in the key of firecrackers.
Where do you have the compass?
Where, where???
Where, where???
We don't have it;
We smoked it all.






Article © Tomas Sanchez Hidalgo. All rights reserved.
Published in the July 8, 2019 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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