¨Thou art a little spirit bearing up a corpse.¨ - Epictetus 

My son and I sit on our porch and watch the small triangle-shaped park across the street, an open space with clumps of trees and rocks and flowers at each end. Sometimes… Read full post »

This started with a post by an artist and OSer I really miss, bbd. Please hit this link: bbd in Japan for a better idea of his huge contribution to this site. If you remember to click back here and read a few lines from my contribution, that would be wonderful.

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Check me out in my many colors miniskirt
Excellent mileage on pocas palabras means mucho flirt
Let’s get together en el coche y en la guagua
Detrás de cada puerta en my Soviet made Lada
Con su máquina running, cunning, purring, no-shirting
Oh, and like I mentioned, full throttle&n/… Read full post »

Here, snow falling straight down would be rain in the tropics 
Everything there would be white instead of green
Mango dripping hearts beating under
Teeth tearing y ojos entreabiertos staring
Warm palms pressed into my back. 
 
But tonight is all white
Dressed up deep in smooth moon and s… Read full post »

Do Me A Favor (uno) 

Help me christen the kitchen

Let's skip the flip flops, let's just use topspin

You choose the language, I want to listen

When you start to hum as neither of us notice

If sure footed footprints step into a lotus

Were we… Read full post »

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

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… 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 

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Hazme un favor.

Échate un trago.

A ver, pruébalo bien.

Estás descalzo, guapo.… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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/… Read full post »