Ernesto Priego's Cities
I
had to
learn to pronounce
you
under the
influence of your
sky.
It was
all drunken walking,
with
love or
sadness or booze,
but
always drunk,
always surrounded by
the
beauty of
the living and
the
dead. Ghosts
slept with me
in
tiny rooms
surrounded by children,
and
your trees
and your snow
. . .
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Read the rest and "The Seventh City" at Never Neutral and check out the rest of the suite of stunning poems, each city built out of love and hay(na)ku bricks.
had to
learn to pronounce
you
under the
influence of your
sky.
It was
all drunken walking,
with
love or
sadness or booze,
but
always drunk,
always surrounded by
the
beauty of
the living and
the
dead. Ghosts
slept with me
in
tiny rooms
surrounded by children,
and
your trees
and your snow
. . .
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Read the rest and "The Seventh City" at Never Neutral and check out the rest of the suite of stunning poems, each city built out of love and hay(na)ku bricks.
4 Comments:
These are wonderful, I'm reading them again.
Gee, thanks! I was inspired by Lorna's abecedarian hay(na)ku suite, and following NOLA's tragedy and a personal recovery period (I have been trying to sort out photographs from my past) I was moved to write this series on cities that I have visited awake and revisited constantly in dreams.
I am honored by your comments. Thank you, really.
I'm going to choose Kopenhavan, in Denmark and try to write in the hay(na)ku form. I spent several days there as a bride. We visited a lot of the city and traveled north by train to see Louisiana, the modern art museum on the New Zealand coast. Saw Alexander Caulder's incredible mobils there.
I find so many of Ernesto's poems breathtaking, and I've never used that phrase before but it fits, I breathe in deep for the "AH!" awe of awesome poetry when you catch it in the act — of becoming, becoming a part of this person, here, right now, you, in the reading. No? Interesting how this act of mass inspiration takes place here in the poetry-place of Blogville. I find.
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