Sleep, lying in dry river beds
Sold rapidly, buy the shore banks
Brains washed from corporate heads
Dried and neatly styled on fuel tanks
Rippled, ragged breaths of ashen air
Smog saturated sludge and stench
Precipitations drought and bare
Floating plastic water bottles’ island’s quench
External thermostat control is diplomatic
Hemisphere and atmosphere are fastened
Kings and Queens of trepid arid Earth
Dust harvests of genetically modified stock
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. Madrigal à la Tasso The surface of the lake reflects the flight _Of one and then another swan; _How...
So beautiful! I was enjoying all of your wonderful slant rhymes for “nature”, and then saw that those in the…
A very nice rendering of Eustache, and one that must have taken a great deal of work to maintain the…
Margaret, your translation talents are amazing. Your manipulation of each line is masterful to achieve such effective rhymes in English…
This is very beautiful, Margaret C., and it brings to mind the wisteria and jacaranda blossoms that greet me on…
Col Roy, you got it. Places like Alpine Texas and Tallulah Falls Georgia are not just places, they are formation…
There is a sense of the surreal in this poem, and almost like a Dali or Magritte image painted (or in this case expressed) for our imagination, and all wrapped up in an environmental and placement contradiction. I enjoyed it. Thank you.