A car ride
Up the coast
A lovely curve
A hand held head
The sea rolling
The road tipping in

I hadn’t thought of you in years
But yesterday when I was so thirsty
I was suddenly pulsing, floating, twisting
The moment the water hit my mouth

Tenías años de no haber cruzado mi mente
Pero ayer, con una sed feroz
De repente yo pulsaba, flotaba, rotaba
Junto con el agua en mi boca Read full post »

There are nights I simply want to
Light a cigaro bien largo
Spend some hours smoking that puro bien duro
My mouth full of tongue vaciando'  breath filled lung                       &… Read full post »

Put this record on

Pour a glass

Let me watch you take a sip

I noticed you are barefoot

The piano just came in

Over the slide guitar

Touch, hear

Touch, here 

___________

Hazme un favor.

Échate un trago.

A ver, pruébalo bien.

Estás descalzo, guapo.

Oye,… Read full post »

La lait c’est sain, c’est sain, c’est bon
Así que corre, corre, corazón
Si es que todavía tienes dientes,
Piernas, pulmón
Molting, revolting, volvo, volviendo
Going from cero to 22
Riding toward shore on a cerro azul
Olé, holy mole, ghost y Jesús
Co… Read full post »

I should have known.
All those nights we threw our heads back
our lion’s maws already satisfied, sated with just anticipation
Always after, we were so glad to have been had and held
so tight we weren’t sure we’d get out alive
After all, even the moth wing fringed surf must imagine
it can… Read full post »

On a night like this one
You'll stay awake, whispering
Continuing the story for me
Your familia estrellada, constelada
Scrambled and scattered
As though none of it mattered
Pantalones y falda, ninguna doblada
You walked away from the narrowing hallway of your childhood
Into every sunrise stretched out… Read full post »

Solo me provocas para confirmar que es posible
Te miras en el espejo y te crees increíble
Tú fechada es un show que solo sale en tú propio canal
Y como yo soy ingenua sigo esperando una señal
Que me indicaría que tú podrías sintonizar a mi estació… Read full post »

The father of the bride walks his daughter down the grass path. Even scrubbed clean, his harvest hardened hands still catch a little on the veil as he lifts it over her face to leave one last kiss before his dusty dress shoes carry him to relief in a chair where… Read full post »

I never knew my grandfather
From what my granny told me
It was his cobra charming smile that got to her first
(they say it’s that very first bite that is actually the worst)
In some pictures of him he wears khaki slacks and white t-shirts
In others, stray cat strut suits every day he/… Read full post »

For my granny

That I belonged to you and you to me, for all the things you told me and everything you didn’t, for all the nights you watched the traffic while I made mistakes and friends who know your name today, for all those guys you so… Read full post »

Under the canasta made by the tropical sky
Far from the plains on nights geese fly
Where it's three times trim turn around the block
Push the shovel, watch the clock
Let’s go back to us, sweating and stilled, not quite asleep on the dock
Our feet in the river
Everything you've never told me
Rushing by/… Read full post »

This will work best if you visit vanessa seijo's snapshot (just in case you haven't yet had the pleasure). 

The Tamarind Boys hold court under the tamarind tree

Watching the pretty girls go by.

Sometimes they whistle but for the girls they really like

They have no words,… Read full post »

You allow my breath to soften your skin

already dissolving in the sunlight 

at the same time I touch you 

matter complicates itself into organized, gleaming joules. 

My measurements indicate a generated vibration

sun-dropped, glottal stopped 

just before diamonds return to coal&… Read full post »