COLD MOON NIGHTLorraine Caputo
That midnight rain
begins,
a soft scuttle
across my roof,
rivulets streaming
off the tejas,
rivulets flowing
between cobblestones
of the narrow
streets …
low fog slinks
into the folds
of the jaguar
valley, obscuring
the slopes of
volcanoes & mountains,
obscuring the
newly full moon,
a green comet, the
stars
a rain soft,
a lullaby for this
Cold Moon Night …
***
NIGHT PULSE
yonder beyond
shadow
mountains silent
lightning pulsates
over
night-black jungle
***
THE STILLNESS
Tonight
there is
a
stillness
of light
Bright specks
marking
homes
& streets
do not
shimmer
The sole
movement
are
fireworks
shooting
skyward
marking
the
Virgen’s
feast days
***
THE HOUSE OF ONE THOUSAND WINDOWS
A hodge-podge
house,
naked adobe
patched with white
wash,
rambling, bare
windows –
small or large
panes or
mere slits – all
facing
at many angles …
This casa sprouts
from the river’s
banks
greened by willows
& elderberry.
***
THE WARNING
The temperature
drops
the wind picks up,
rumbles crumple
over western mountains.
A warning of the
cold rain to come
downpouring, pelting
upon empty holiday
streets,
lightning flashing
outside my window
& thunder
pounding
upon this tin roof.
***
Biography
Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet,
translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 300 journals on six
continents, such as Prairie Schooner
(US), Revista M├бquina Combinatoria (Ecuador),
StepAway (UK), Erothanatos (India), Cordite
Poetry Review (Australia) and Bakwa
(Cameroon); and 20 collections of poetry – including On Gal├бpagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Caribbean Interludes (Origami Poems
Project, 2022). She also pens travel pieces, with narratives appearing in the
anthologies Drive: Women's True Stories
from the Open Road (Seal Press) and Far Flung and Foreign (Lowestoft
Chronicle Press), and articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by
the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of
the Net. She has done over 200 literary readings, from Alaska to the Patagonia.
Ms Caputo journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the
pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at: www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer or https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com.
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