Sinorita rita — Señorita Rita (From the series “Tijuana")
As appears in Mayrev (West) vol. 1 (February, 1925): 41.
Translated by Hershl Hartman.

Your eyes, Sinorita Rita —
coyotes in a dark Sierra night.
Your breath, Sinorita Rita —
cypress-winds
mixed with pitch and sulphur.
The furrows in your forehead are rouged,
your silvery hair colored into gold.
What then is it about you, Sinorita Rita,
that causes the young, trembling maidens,
in covert stiletto-hatred,
to devour you with spear-sharp eyes?
What then, devil, is so ingrained in you
that at your entrance at “The Owl,”
and at the first tsim-tsim of your drumlet,
couples grow impudent
and the crowd, wild,
and they raise a cheer
to the priestess of Bacchus.