Now that she is old, Helen walks on the beach Remembering her old lovers The temperamental merging of sea and sand Makes her ponder men and women Currents are wanderers But it’s tectonic plates that are hard – The stupid analogy falls apart And Helen laughs and orders Half a liter of wine on theContinue reading “A different ending is still an ending”
Category Archives: Poetry
A decade without
When starting a letter to the other side, I first want to point out that things are mostly fine I mean, sure, there’s a war on, thousands have died But I grew some nice boobs while you were away, Sir Robin (ha ha). The economy you always lamented Is somehow even deader Than you couldContinue reading “A decade without”
Home, briefly
To paraphrase a silly movie I loved: Dark matter, actually, is all around. What if the tremor in my hand Are unseen particles passing through Having previously traveled through you. I sat by the Washington Monument And wanted someone to ask why I was crying Even though I’d stuck a pair of big sunglasses onContinue reading “Home, briefly”
A song for your birthday
On your birthday I want to be together again The others’ birthdays are all vague to me Hahaha, I say, I’m bad with names and dates, you guys And start getting drunk in too much of a hurry. An old fortuneteller said the whips of hell been chasing me But it was when I wasContinue reading “A song for your birthday”
Adelina
Thank God for the side streets Exhaling fog this time of year Letting me step off the boulevard And giving me a place to drown My memories of Adelina. This landscape is like a video game I interact with it Pull mysteries from it Like silver fish from the blue sea. Beneath each tile, eachContinue reading “Adelina”
Natalia A. 