Ciguapa

Issue 18

2025

Alex Vidal Pérez

Don’t follow the woman with long raven hair 

/// and feet facing the past or you’ll find yourself 

filling your present with delusions

/// with things that don’t exist or matter 

she who entices lost drunken men to meet their ends

/// eats them up for dinner and feeds on their souls

la ciguapa es como una tormenta en medio de julio

/// que se va tan rápido como llegó sin dejar rastro alguno

legend says she creeps deep within the forest’s vegetation 

/// waiting for spoiled rotten souls to join her feast

estas no son casualidades que pasan por si solas

/// la ciguapa se mueve con una intención voraz 

bienaventurados sean los hombres que escapan su red de lujuria

/// ya sea por suerte o intervención divina

may you never meet her at the dead of night

/// for if she finds you 

you will not be found

again



Alex Vidal Pérez (he/they) is a senior Creative Writing major with minors in Publishing & Editing and Spanish Studies. On campus, he serves as the Social Media chair for SU Slam Poetry Club, and the Treasurer for ALAS, among other things. They enjoy writing about world issues, the mundane, reading about magical realism and anything by Gabriel García Márquez.



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