Category: poetry

  • quarantine day 41 – lima vacía

    The destructive rhythms of Lima have ground to a halt.
    
    I lay on the couch,
    sit on the floor,
    pace on the concrete roof,
    and dream
    of floating through a redrock desert on a swollen river;
    of walking though a verdant forest under towering trees;
    of sitting on a ridge line looking out upon endless ranges. 
    
    I don’t want to go back.
  • quarantine day 40

    quarantine day 40

    Mask behind the wheel,
    beetle on empty highway.
    Is it a surprise?
    After each crisis,
    always more complexity.
    When will it collapse?
  • quarantine day 37

    quarantine day 37

    Bare feet back and forth
    An infinite blue expanse
    just beyond my reach.
  • Stake Your Being

    The quotidian
    food pellets and delusions
    who is at the helm?

    Cricket chirps resound
    devoid of past or future
    only boundless hope