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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Flamenco Blues / Statement of poetics (two poems by Icarus Jonson)

FLAMENCO BLUES

Check the jails and the morgues
for my soul

¡Ay, madre!  

Check the bars
bars and hospitals
for it

¡Niña de mi corazón!

Check my usual places
haunts and homes
for my body

¡Ay, madre,
niña de mi corazón!  


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STATEMENT OF POETICS FOR A NEVER-PUBLISHED ANTHOLOGY

There are few things on earth--softer

than--a hard-boiled egg--

if you think about it--

my heart--too--is soft--

underneath this hard shell--

my impregnable--poems.

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