“Lorca’s Spain: A Homage”

Beginning with olive trees.
ppppppppppppppppppp Shadows.
Beginning with roosters.
ppppppppppppppppppp Crystal.
Beginning with castanets & almonds.
ppppppppppppppppppp Fishes.
This is a homage to Spain.
This mists dogs.
This silences rubber.
This is Saturn.
Beginning with yellow.
ppppppppppppppppppp Eclipse.
Beginning with needles.
ppppppppppppppppppp Insomnia.
Beginning with baskets.
ppppppppppppppppppp The Moon.
Who is naked? The imagination
(wrote Lorca) is seared.
This is a homage to water.
Beginning & end.


From WRITING THROUGH (Wesleyan, 2004)