Algunas Bestias

5 months ago

Era el crepúsculo de la iguana.Desde la arcoirisada cresteríasu leengua como un dardose hundía en la verdura,el hormiguero monacal pisabacon…

A Song of Despair

5 months ago

The memory of you emerges from the night around me.The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea.Deserted like the…

A Dog Has Died

5 months ago

My dog has died.I buried him in the gardennext to a rusted old machine.Some day I'll join him right there,but…

Wake

5 months ago

Tell all my mournersTo mourn in red --Cause there ain't no senseIn my bein' dead.

The Weary Blues

5 months ago

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the…

The Negro Mother

5 months ago

Children, I come back todayTo tell you a story of the long dark wayThat I had to climb, that I…

The Blues

5 months ago

When the shoe strings breakOn both your shoesAnd you're in a hurry-That's the blues.When you go to buy a candy…

Sea Calm

5 months ago

How still,How strangely stillThe water is today,It is not goodFor waterTo be so still that way.

Problems

5 months ago

2 and 2 are 4.4 and 4 are 8.But what would happenIf the last 4 was late?And how would it…

Oppression

5 months ago

Now dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevailBut the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts…