A little less cold, a little less clear as we inch toward the warm mud of April. The cardinal pays her morning visit to her glassy rival.
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A little less cold, a little less clear as we inch toward the warm mud of April. The cardinal pays her morning visit to her glassy rival.
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less clear, less cold: here comes
the muddy murmur of Spring,
the gleam of my glassy rival:
who shaves believing that lovers
arrive in April, that omens
never cash out, that the
knotted fist of my heart
can hold its clench forever.
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Letter, Fumbling Around in the Dark Again
*”They can be like the sun, words.
They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
— St. John of the Cross*
Dear fellow pilgrim, today the road seems
a little less cold, a little less clear as we inch
toward the warm mud of April. The hems
of our tunics are far from the earth, our jeans
are double-cuffed. For fear of rain, the cardinal
doesn’t want to hang her prayer flags in the trees.
A few stray flakes come down, like bits of frozen
milk: and I’m out of coffee. Where’s the nearest stop,
some diner where we might use the loo and get
a bit of soup, a knuckle of bread? I know we’re not
going to the Alhambra to walk in the gardens or catch
the view from the *Mirador de Lindajara*; we’re not
even on the famous road to Santiago de Compostela
where the saint’s remains lie like a star, his bones
unfold like the thorns of a compass rose buried in
the depths of a field… Groucho Marx knew that nights
are dark as the inside of a dog’s belly– but isn’t that
why book lights were invented? I don’t give up easy.
I’m fumbling around for the light switch, for the power
cord, for the fuse box. And there’s got to be something
with which to jimmy the skylights open– think of how
we could open our mouths to evenings of falling stars.
~ Luisa A. Igloria
03 28 2011
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