Disclaimer

This blog ran for more than two years with no graphics--and it received about 50 page views. I was advised to add graphics; after seeing the huge public that followed blogs dedicated to homoerotic images, I decided to use that kind. The result was a dramatically increased number of monthly page views, and the number has remained fairly steady. Most of the images were found on the internet; although they are assumed to be in the public domain, they are identified as far as possible. They are exhibited under the Fair Use protections of United States copyright law: their function is simply to attract readers to the poems--I receive no economic benefit from them or from the blog. Nevertheless, they will be removed if they are copyrighted and the owner so desires. 1260 x 290

POEMAS EN ESPAÑOL -- 2009: January 8, April 12, August 3 . . . . 2010: January 13 . . . . 2013: June 30, November 28, December 8 . . . . 2014: September 25, November 30 . . . . 2015: July 9, October 22 . . . . 2016: February 12, August 1, December 28 . . . . 2017: March 2, September 5 . . . . 2018: May 10, July 15, November 3 . . . . 2019: August 4, December 5 . . . . 2020: December 1 . . . . 2021: October 12, December 3 . . . . 2022: April 15, June 21 . . . . 2023: January 3, April 2, May 9, June 6.

Friday, February 26, 2010

THE WORLD’S


The world’s an old carrousel
in an abandoned amusement park.
I’m a unicorn nailed to a pole,
a tiger impaled on a post,
in the dark.
 
The world’s a theater, half empty.
I’m a ventriloquists doll, thought to be
the magician’s assistant—on me
(manacled, fettered, locked in a box)
he practices fake levitations
and similar feats.
 
The worlds a post office.
I’m a dead letter,
Thrown in the mail with no destination,
No one to greet.

The world’s a Lost-and-Found
full of old watches and shoes and keys without locks.
I look around—
and I find
I’m lost.
 
The world’s an old burial ground.
All day people come and go,
come and stay
to pray before angels of stone.
The angels are looking away.
Me they dont see; I’m going,
I’m light, I’m disappearing,
I’m a ghost.

 


____________________________
Carrousel from http://dailyphotoparis.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html
Angel from http://www.fotopedia.com/wiki/Angel#!/items/egcedflhitn88-AvK0331soFA

Followers