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Month: October 2017

Ulf Kirchdorfer: “Bird Alert”

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 ~ amarillobay

You know about addiction
when after reading the rare
bird alert you find yourself
in the rain opposite someone’s
house, window rolled down
with beach towel to cover
most of the inside door,
and you start to feel a little
better when the rain lets up
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Jules Gates: “Girl in a Swing”

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 ~ amarillobay

Iridescent blue-beige, polished with a soft cloth
After rough chiseling with precise tools over time.
The twilight of dying day fixates on the angles
And brings the girl in a swing
To true 3-D pale white flesh,
With flecks of blinding yellow lightning bug flashes,
Despite her porcelain restraints.

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Donley Watt: “Guatemala, 1990”

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 ~ amarillobay

It is March, 1990.  Lynn and I are stuck in Comitan, Mexico, but not for long.  We are waiting in a frame house, set back from the Pan American Highway, which runs through the heart of this small city and on down to the border with Guatemala only eighty kilometers to the south.

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