
Terminal City
Standing among the bathypelagic flora of the sea, among the salt hills and the forests of kelp I ask about her again, about mother.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Standing among the bathypelagic flora of the sea, among the salt hills and the forests of kelp I ask about her again, about mother.
You’ll find the Pièta d’Avignon at the bar
clutching a telegram from her husband
the cretin of Panama—
Oranges: you’ll have to grow your own, love, feed them
finger-cut, moon-flow, any blood will do
Twelve hours in the city of my infancy on a night endeavoring to portents.
If Tordesillas were Tur Disaala
And the ‘New World’ were Moorish
Would the yearning have been so tacit
for the treasures of an unknown empire<br
One day, sitting in a café with Rumi’s ghost
over mint tea and biscuits, he told me about Shams;
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