Tuesday, April 29, 2008

For MV: a Celebration





Inspired by the confessional terrain
behind this unhappy lament,
the Spanish gypsies
female and idiosyncratic
rest in a line like
fairy tales, full of heat and violence.
Quickly, deftly, the vulnerability
mirrors teeth,
a sudden sharp hot certitude
written in their speech,
confronting much of
creation.

The room filled with a measure of sadness
the green youthful communion,
he tries to touch her, and
dance into a grave.
It was another life.