I have to highlight a poem I just saw in Hinchas de Poesia issue 3, fall 2010--"Launching Pads" by Sergio Ortiz here. It has a great repetitive structure that really works with where he goes. Few people can write these kinds of short poems and do well, but I really like this one.
Here's an excerpt:
Launching Pads [Plataforms de Lanzamientos]
between hatred and garland lives an Esperantist wolf
between a cactus and a lute there’s roughness of wind [...]
entre el odio y la guirnalda vive un lobo esperantista
entre el cacto y la dulzaina existe rudeza de viento [...]
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