Namaste!

Namaste!
August 24, 2010 * Aguas Calientes * Machu Picchu * Peru * South America

poetry and the art of recklessness

"how sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self-defence to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad
after things that are not." *john keats, july 1818
let us riot in the unattainable!
poetry is when the animal bursts forth, inflamed.

*and dean young is spectacular to have written this essay in poets&writers magazine






Friday, April 2, 2010

new york, new york


arrived into LaGuardia
meandered through Queens
hit walls of traffic
spoke a little Spanish with my cab driver,
25 years he's been here, big city, he says, where you from?

Chicago!

big city, too, he says. not as big as New York, but big.
but, where you from?

Ahhhh, Wisconsin. Born and raised.
But, your asking about Peru. I have family from and in Peru. Lima.
Going there for a wedding in August!

aaaaahhhhh, Peru?! ceviche! mmmmmm, the ceviche!

Claro, the ceviche es muy rico...

i pay George, thank him for the service, as my bags get bellhop-ed into the lobby.

no keys, no map in hand
New Big City, ripe and juicy
carousel doors leaving me spun and hungry
until, my love pushes through the amusement of the ride we took to arrive

and
calms
me
back
to
planet
new york,
new leaf.

namaste, NYC. let's be kind to each other, new lover!

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