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derecho



I fired an arrow at the moon
she who observes my melancholy solitude
without eyes.  & without a voice
speaks of old battlegrounds where I fell

but my arrow didn’t reach her
so deeply reigning in her cimmerian realm –
it burst into flame in the meridian
& made a small spark in the sky

battlegrounds that began in bars
gaudy clubs where I lusted for dancers on the stage
who became courtesans in perfume & paint
that did not enhance their beauty, but corroded it

or a village girl in peasant blouse
who tempted me into her bed
carino,’ she said. ‘you gonna kiss me
or waste your time talking?’
soldier in need of liberating
this passion that overfills me

her tainted beauty in my eyes
her absinthian taste on my tongue
yet in the joining of our flesh
I dare to feel the pristine caress of love
temporal romance: the sad orphan of my dreams
I have been corrupted by poetry

each brief memory, the eye of a hurricane
until the wailing zephyrs surround me
I tell the violent wind
blow me.  blow me away –

there will be less loneliness in the world…


(Art: H. Momo Zhou)



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