just do what i do
five words in a line
just do what i do
be like all the rest
it is just so easy
to lose that inner voice
four words in a line
do not do that
Tag: Writing
When Instagram Spoke
no one wants the poems
give me the photos
no time to look at letters
on a page, and i don’t
really care anyway
about your abstract ideas
related to sound and sunlight
so forget it and paste
your iphone image
on the screen
get to it old man
the future is now
Doomscrolling
and what is the point
of this exchange, your
eyes wonder if time taken
is worth the words, words
appear as if to say all
abstract things about
the void, this is nothing, but
so like all the rest
of what you’ve read today
on the screen, know what
i mean?
Frist Art Museum
Remembering Rudolfo Anaya
curandera with her
medicinal herbs and
ability to fly
as feathered owl
into sky, bless
me ultima, chicano
spiritual soul power
https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2020-06-30/rudolfo-anaya-dead
The House of Love
This is a second poem by my Grandmother Ethel from her scrapbook.
Our Wisdom
I found this poem in my Grandmother’s scrapbook, I believe it is from the late 1920’s.
Freedom During Quarantine
these evenings I stay up
late, just to see what has
accumulated during quarantine
days, overabundant family
time, the same dog walks
over and over, this darkened
hour is the only quiet space
without Zoom, or TikTok,
Netflix, or email invading
every minute, here I am
again, pretending to write
poems, freedom disguised
as ink words on a page
No Poem Today
nada nothing zilch
absence of all
form, invisible blank
space, that void
empty of everything
vacant desert, arid
dry heaves, alone
in this brain
without thoughts, vast
darkness between stars
Presence and the Virus
and in the midst
of this uncertainty, as
time stands still in
houses, on streets where
dogs are walked five
times a day, and
women, men, wear masks
to stop the virus
within all this, i
sit next to my
son’s slumber and feel
only peace and calm
because this is our
moment, and all is
quiet, and the world
only exists right now
