Collections
selected poems
From the Andalusian Poems collection​
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The Gypsy Virgin
an intricate narrative woven with desire
Tonight the moon
is dripping wine.
The moon is singing.
The moon is singing.
She dances with lustful
gypsies in the town square
and she sips the sweet wine
dripping down onto breasts...
read the poem at The Gypsy Virgin
From the collection A Poem About God
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I Must Die Tomorrow
the pain and suffering of the Son of Man
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Lover of the wife;
father of the child;
seducer of the bride.
All my life, you tortured me.
The father I love, you crippled.
Now he splutters in the corner—
a voice without words...
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read the poem at I Must Die Tomorrow
From the Poems of Despair collection
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Springtime
moods of despair and loneliness
In the season of dusk and sadness,
I recall flights of little swallows
heading down south
in the sleepy skies of summer.
‘Is this it?’ asks a baffled man.
A blackbird on the chimney squawks,
'There’ll never be another springtime'
then it jeers and mocks him...
read the poem at Springtime
From the Coming-of-Age poem collection
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A Mirage on the Water
whispered tales of youthful awakening
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Each day at noon, I cycled
in the pungent fumes of melting tar
to a pubescent mirage on the water.
We were bound to each other
by ancient folklore of the land;
I, the young protégée of the sea,
seething, always unsated and, she
the precious daughter of the master...