“During the Hindu festival of Yadnya Kasada,
the Tenggerese people toss offerings – food,
money, flowers, livestock – into the hazy crater
of Mount Bromo.”
– NYTimes . 11/2021
Stones might go beserk but rainbow glass window
breakers should be arrested : conduct unbelonging.
Some things you should see through yourself / Whose
body turns Not now! half moon beside me? / first off
the face wipe crabgrass spider emissions.
The Cloud hoards; cards charge on pristine table
linen; the net trawls / beach hosts sharpening stakes
for the change of heart rate / as per cast off sink
retry.
Advisory (no date) : close home nursing at the border;
the throats of wives ‘n’ children take if desert
waves insist.
Baggage to weigh souls tote attached
like Qué Sera risk built bosoms, mount bearings
set to Peak.
* All these ridiculous accessories | not your phone
screen, the window! Come to the window. Say you,
nothing there blue new to see ? who needs to arm
first immunize.
You know what, I should go. Prairie
Indian scout, all done.
– W.W.
[ In mem. Vicente Fernández . 1940 – 2021 ]
A MIND DEFENDS ITS MAZE
Well, rivers are not rain in basins
in which babies can splash;
nor are mountains hillocks and ant-mounds
which goats can jump over.
Whales that can swallow boats do not sport
about in shallow streams.
The swift hawk and graceful swan do not
nest in ponds and puddles.
You will not find pure pearls by cracking
open mini-oysters
……………………………………………..
(from “Readiness” by Brian Chan, 2013)
FARJOURNEY CARIBBEAN 