caleibow
caleibow archive of published lines and poems on Linespedia.
"Adolph smiles and eats the bratwurst.Benito sitting beside him, drinks the wine.The summer is hotBenito’s neck sweats.Eva is hanging shirts on a clothesline…hanging Jews on barbed wire. The summer has..."
"The night is heavytime slips by on muffled hooves.The night of operas is upon me,sad operas of unimaginable Floridasand cruel Carolinas.I am the man on the corner that no one notices.I’ve dined on my ..."
"Come take a walk with me down the avenue of bones,walk closethe street is narrow and crowded with ghosts,the bones of those trying to get home.The alley sweats.It is always hot on the Avenida del Hues..."
"An old man walks forward. He slightly drags his left leg, and inconvenience. His hair is gray and full, his gait strait and persistent. He walks with his head down concentrating on something far off, ..."
"It’s 103 degrees tonightmy neighbors wearing hot pants.She leaves my trailer in the cool morning.League night at Jiffy bowlI bowl 165.At work the next day I’m depressed.First snow in 15 yearsmy 60’s D..."
"The sign outside saidFive dollars for a hair cut,The barber pole was broken.'Never trust a bald barber'where did I hear that before?Larry, the barber wasn’t exactly bald,Greasy black hair 6 inches lon..."
"Beside books,Kerouac Jack.Poetics and spontaneous prose-In the moment before knowingWhen you touched me,Unconscious, unknowing, bewitching me in a moment,When you said…I can’t remember what it was you..."
"Snow outside the white filters into the room, Listening to love songs in Spanish I dream of Chilean snows and hot tea. Looking out over stampeding seas The wind knocking at the door, but you won’t le..."
"I hearthe heavy handed blowing of a horn, and hats fall from the skythe men begin to dance.A taxi driver gets out of his car and sings sad ballads of Franco’s’ reignand the dead are wearing black skul..."
"Gravity brought my great grandfather to this country It was my great grandmothers will Who wrestled the moon, Changing tides Disturbing orbits. She brought him here, but he stayed in Germany. He be..."
"My grandfather sold shoesSold spats, laces, and wing-tipsHe always wore wing-tipsTook meticulous careHad all the accessoriesFor his shoesHadn’t sold shoes for 40 yearsbut still carried a shoe hornMy g..."
"The night is hotand the PRI sweats bullets of revolution.The birds of the jungles are revolutionariesOld women hide guns under their feet,and Zapata smiles from his grave.Subcommadante Marcos lies on ..."
"My grandmother came through Ellis Island1922left Rumaniaand the step mother with an iron skillet,and her father the old Rabbi.Kiks, huddled massessick, poor, Jews.She loved America.Though my father ma..."
"NAFTA A Poem in 2 PartsPart 1 1958'Latin Americans are too content with…living on their small farms…these backward and uneducated populationsdon’t realize that they are not happy…the role of the Unite..."
"In the mountains they found her,brass lodged in her brow.Her bones told of her suffering,the rosary her brother gave her for her weddinghanging from her white jaw bone,the white crystal beads in place..."
"She sits next to mehair like car crashes -her eyes are like park benchesworn and green -I lean back like a broken chairI touch her shoulderShe turns and kisses metakes my arms and ties themaround hers..."
"Driving along an endless flat I-80 East I look for my mineral sea and her gunmetal waters – There where the azure mirrored sky rides foamy waves and where sudden angry storms turn glass calm i..."
"I was standing 12 years old dust covering me the trucks bounced like burros across the ruts truck after truck old men with bandannas around their necks would wave truck after truck after truck loa..."