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Three Wishes of Bahia
Each January in Salvador, Brazil, at the Church of Our Lord of Bonfim, worshippers wash the steps and dress all in white to honor the divinity, who is associated with the Yoruba god Oxalá, creator of the world. He is linked to a peaceful end (bom fim). The worshippers take vows to him by tying […]
Let Us Be Rhythm
I want only to be rhythm. I am done with things, I don’t want to be a thing Not a person Not an object of fame or admiration I want only to be rhythm I want to pack up my things And burn them So when I float off […]
The Garden of Brazil
for Moisés J. Nascimento The mango I think was the same mango you were thinking of when you thought of the mango On the counter, between us, the pile of fruits Red and green and yellow skins And the little flies with their opal wings Legging across the oval of their little fruity planets But it […]
Lá / There
for Mario and Maria Nascimento There, babes are held In arms, on the pulse Of the chest, Not, as in the States, away In the distant island of the stroller. There, food is not fuel But a chance of meeting— Have you eaten? A form of greeting. There, on the walls of Belo Horizonte, someone […]
Aeneas in the Airport
in the airport I see Aeneas from a distance Aeneas has her helmet on it is white and smudged from a distance the helmet of Aeneas smudged with the light of the desert I touch her arm Where are you off to? I ask her I’m with the National Guard, she says I’m off to […]
where is the war?
where is the war? is the war in the ampules of the morning dew, globules whole and peaceful? or is the war rather in the lavender geodes cut open on the jeweler’s counter? does the war live in the classroom, children pacing out slow textbooks? where is the war? is it in the overriding calm […]
Seeing Things
At the Winter Park ski-holiday reunion who swans in only Stevie whose legs don’t take him far – he’d been hammering under another man’s car when another man’s bomb went off. Answer: the skin. It’s Trivia night and we’re in with a chance. All the other tables are offering liver. What is the […]