Whitman Yoga
Walt Whitman does some beach yoga. Leaves of Grass Read Cartagena, 2013
The best sex poem you will have
Good things can be found via a well-edited Twitter account. Mine is not one. Per the advice of a few Twiterati friends, I am following back everyone and anyone who will follow me. So, I inevitably follow someone called ‘Bella Swan’ and another called ‘Cupid’s Arrow.’ No offense, but their thing is just not my […]
Bathroom Talk
Watching you pee in front of me while we talk about not being late It’s true we shouldn’t be late to things I try to remember when we began peeing and talking In front of each other I wish I could remember I would tell you I wish I had to pee So that […]
The Feeling of Being Hungover
Sometimes, I get so tired of poetry. It asks for so much– makes me feel hungover. Or if I am hungover– makes me feel dumb and slow. As if merging on the freeway– I am swallowed, trapped– though it was my decision to go. Written April 2013
Llena
de dudas y preguntas que luces opacas contra tu pared llena de cansancio y de los hombros cansados que componen el sufrimiento narrado arrastrada – tengo sueño – cargada con el mal uso de mi tiempo Escrito 2008
Overdue Love Letter
Minus the saliva on paper The hesitant comma Barely smeared Impatient still Signed and dated Sealed I offer every swerve Soft wrist and stiff neck Dear, This is my wet black ink Written 2005
Cansancio fácil
Decir jueves en la tarde Tal vez un listado Llamadas cortas, recibidas El cigarrillo provoca Noticia del día leída Agotada Hora de rendir Tantos brazos estirados Asientos reclinados En resumen Mejor mañana Terminamos Escrito 2007
Word of the day: Poivrotte
A Moveable Feast. Ernest Hemingway. Read Bogotá, March 2013 Related articles Hemingway’s Paris (anotherbonjour.wordpress.com) A Moveable Feast (thewritecaravan.wordpress.com) Adventures of a Moveable Feast (adventuresofamoveablefeast.wordpress.com) A Writer’s Wisdom: Ernest Hemingway (persephonewrites.wordpress.com) Books About Paris (parisinmypocket.wordpress.com)
Fifteen Minutes
In the fifteen minutes you claimed would elapse before you arrived at my house wearing a tuxedo, I read Charles Bukowski and saw the December boat parade. Before you arrived, I heard blow horns punctuate the salsa CD spinning in my bedroom. I read about Bukowski’s cats, both of them, and their […]
Construct
God Blog
Blogging is a real religion. It is how I feel small but connected to the big, to the unknown, to the better than I, to that life after I die. It is how I beg to be liked by being good. Written 2013
Late Night Poem
It is no secret to me that Leonard Cohen drank too much wine late at night, listening to someone like Leonard Cohen on too much wine late at night. I am no better than myself. The way I break down is sudden and graceful, with altruism, helping hand, my head held up so […]
Autóctono
Un pueblo autóctono, explicaste, pesca y come; encuentra piedras hace regalos; corta paja vende sombreros; inventa sombra y luego la cobra. Escrito 2007
Tragedy at Sushi Siam
Today I read about poetic time and poetic space, about how allegories are imagined and metrics not. I read about real efforts to compose, allusions, footnotes, tool sheds as help. I read all this believing in it, not knowing that tonight you would be where I was, and I would need […]
La sede
Si la ciencia afirma que lo material creado está; Y la historia señala con diez dedos hacia atrás; Y la poesía rima sin entender el mar; Uno parado en centro mediano de rincón urbano Muy solo tiene que estar. Escrito mayo 2010
Sorry Afterthought
No language When spoken Suits me I could try to remember more Read slower Drink less Practice inserting one word into a daily sentence Oh! – The conversations New sounds digested on my saturnine tongue Aardvark Adjurations dropped after the birthday boy asked Written 2009
Aquel que carga Kleenex
Algo tiene que ver con cerezas frescas, limpias y quietas en un recipiente transparente. Con tomar al diente de león del andén de polución y soplar sin escupir. Con llevar listado al mercado, caminar en renglones, y guardar antes de probar. Escrito mayo 2009
Shell
Not a slightly quivering shell covering solace love anymore Nor the sturdy come home sounding doors awake aside Ground fallen stymied lump of grab There here visible unto us Growth of silence flowerlike confident bloom Room light thickened butter weight gasps of air Lungs confront chest mirror throat Styrofoam plea squeaks through Bargain snaps iceberg […]