These Seaside Verses

three brothers fishing

how marvelous    
i turn to a friend
who is still on the bottom 

of a slow line
 
a pathetic bubble

drunk
 
they pulled him out 
with a pastry hook
     
something said
maya tradition
     
fashioned for 
bringing back fishing
 
more no husband
some home
   
he had pasty look in humidity     
look white 
like coral bleached   
canned vegetable colors
     
foil turquoise hands

creamy, humid 
cupid’s thighs
       
rag-cloth mouth
left open 
to veil 
soft face
 
So recently vigil
 
Virgil’s 
dark ascent 
to heaven
hecho 
en mono mas
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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