Western Voices: Lorraine Caputo

Bio:

Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 150 journals in Canada, the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa; 12 chapbooks of poetry – including Caribbean Nights (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017) and the upcoming On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019); and 18 anthologies. Caputo has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to the Patagonia. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.

MEDITATING A STORM

I hear the thunder

& before it

disappears

I stop, I still

my self,

telling Changó

I am here

It sounds like an aeroplane

flying so high, its roar

reverberating off the clouds

                        To what distant lands

                        shall I travel?

           

            My thoughts begin to stray

            the thunder rolls closer

            to my mind

It sounds like a battle

between celestial forces

tremendous blows,

nuclear explosions

                        What challenges

                        must I yet face?

It now rides off

into the distance

Catbird & other songs

fill this calmer morn

yet bathed

by the rain

PATAGONIAN NIGHT VOYAGE

In the waning

half-moon sky

stars slide

over the gently

undulating horizon

of the treeless

Patagonian plain

seeped by the deep chill

of this autumn night

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Western Voices :: Setu, February 2019