Bio: Catfish McDaris won the Thelonius Monk Award in 2015. He’s been active in the small press world for 30 years. He’s recently been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Polish, Swedish, Arabic, Bengali, Mandarin, Yoruba, Tagalog, and Esperanto. Catfish McDaris’ most infamous chapbook is Prying with Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski. He’s from Albuquerque and Milwaukee.
Mexican
Love
for
Aida
I
never knew why you
came
back or why you
left.
Just
be my eternal
Valentine.
Emiliano
Zapata emptied
his
pistols into his
sombrero.
I
listened to the silence
and
it listened back.
***
Mezcaline Fireflies
Vanilla
mezcal in the indigo sky
fireflies
make love and war high
Frida
cut off her long ebony hair
and
threw the tendrils to the wind
Diego
wept blood seeing his lady in
a
man’s suit a monkey on her shoulder
The
hair took root and grew as peyote
cacti
orange and lime trees figs grapes
The
wind stole the hair and spread it all
over
the world Mexican wisdom paint
A
wounded deer punctured by arrows at
Casa
Azul her heaven she will never die.
***
I
see ears in the swirling starry night.
The sky is drunk, the sun puking lemon
juice, the moon has a toothache, the lady
asked the dope fiend to come to talk to
Jesus, he stinks of absinthe and funk.
Sometimes
at night I meet
myself when I was young,
I disgust myself now
What
color is the wind?
What color is an orgasm?
What color is death?
There
is no sea of tranquility
There’s no such thing as a small miracle
Drinking
Mexican coffee as black as death
Lady Gaga drives up in a dirty Mercury,
they head to the Valley of Rhinoceroses
Listening
to Swordfish Trombone and
Bitches Brew overlooking Mexico City.
I enjoyed the spontaneity of your poems, and the originality esp of the final one.
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