23/09/2017

azerbaijan noon

erratic echoes
of a swallow's cries
faint and shrill,
lost midget amid
the persian blue vault
of turquoise and gentian tiles,
pool of cool noon,
in iridescent samarkand.

the first shy note strikes the oud

CANEÇAS

Superheated air streams in  Through the driver-side window as I burn the car Across the blistering heat, exhuming Ian Curtis's Pompeian ...