Stone canoes dug deep enough can float But skin stretched over wooden bones Floats high and carries lighter Across sand bars and forest trails And if capsized bobs up and pulls Easily to shore to be reentered It’s cold in night’s unbound horizons Filled with rocks and nuclear upheavals Too dim or too ill imagined to possess What reason reasons being Rarer things bear consciousness Wolves and cats and […]
Archive | June, 2013
Lorraine Caputo | Spirit Bolom*
In the twilight of morn the Jaguar upon my wall jumps down upon my bed I lie still sensing him lying next to my still-sleeping body His breath his rough tongue bathes me in long strokes & when I awaken with the light of dawn his musk fills my room * “Bolom” means “jaguar” in Tzotzil Maya. Sharing is caring:
Lorraine Caputo | Red Sky at Morning
I. The silence of the departing night is broken by rooster crows & grackle song Coconut palm trees shadowdance in the breeze that smells of sea Magenta clouds drape the western mountains like voile across the sky washed indigo II. School of dolphins breaks the surface of rippling blue- silver bay Overhead pelicans fly in a straight line across the sunset sky pale peach, pale rose […]
Lorraine Caputo | Chi (Five Animal Frolics)
A young Island youth wants to create a new style beyond this Yang we flow… a Galapagueño tai chi of iguana & heron of sea lion, of giant tortoise perhaps of zayapa,* boobie or albatross or the penguin or the flightless cormorant— five sacred animals of these Enchanted Isles to remind us of our place on this Mother Earth *Zayapa, a.k.a. Sally Lightfoot Crab (Grapsus […]
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