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Details | Roberto Delgado Poem 30 Li: fire over fireshe's a middle daughter her halo matted messy mostly curled in ever-fading shades of brown always aware when someone looks her way she'll stare back and force an acknowledgement from the shiest of men she shines her friendship clings, attracts always moves about in twos or threes talking about generalities since she'd always much rather leave specifics for others to discuss in quieter tones as flames do, she does consuming points of view searching for exhilarations conversations and amusements while effortless joy splashes and stains from one person to the next until it simmers warming but still and when she leaves there are no leavings besides these: the memory of her jet-black eyes the wish to see them again. Copyright © Roberto Delgado | Year Posted 2023 |
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Details | Roberto Delgado Poem 60 Chieh: limitationeach when the musics pause we hear the occasional clink of glass voices conversational with words that will not be discerned still every one can see who is clever and who feigns again by how they hold what they hold a limp cigarette the stem of their cup of wine still filled my attention here lacks a harpsichord playing its aloof elegant pouncing notes its rapid fluctuations (a hummingbird's pause-and-shift floating flight) those gathered here cluster compartmentalized by familiarity and shared serendipities create a slowly swirling geometry an asymmetrical kaleidoscope invisible barriers of social convention enforce a maze complex between the rodent and cheese i see you though next to me i may fail to reach out on time this time again flail muted joviality masks despondency as i try my way from one coterie to the next desire outpaces my wit but not evidently yours: "hi". Copyright © Roberto Delgado | Year Posted 2023 |
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Details | Roberto Delgado Poem 23 Po: the centre cannot holdeach conversation progressed adding both flourishes and foundation to the architecture of the edifice in which we hoped to eventually light a hearth weather the night's storms from some protruding balcony, watch the world turn there is trust involved, yes the beams and arches but we colored with lust illicit whispers and subjugations thrillingly narrowed stairways spiraling some leading nowhere some inverting gravitational conventions to the east, a view to a facsimile of your face mountainous rising from a sea to the north of mine not with a wink but a smirk the sun and moon we placed both directly above playfully in eternal conjugation since the eclipse's light softened your complexion looking back there wasn't any one misplaced brick nor miscalculation no one decision nor reaction rash nor deliberate which cascaded us the atmospherics had worked on our favor but and still there became a crack fast free it all didn't implode collapse: it split. Copyright © Roberto Delgado | Year Posted 2023 |
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Details | Roberto Delgado Poem 1 Qian: firmness - 1945a silence eventually disappears with the vacuum's snap between these, our lips clothes come off chasing our shed fears free, our bodies dream and propel our hips further, faster, famished for it's been years or never been like this: apocalypse our limbs wet with sweat, our fate wet with tears at last the whirlwind rips the sail, time drifts we hold each other but we feel again each other landmark passed in our lost way we hold each other but reach for a when yet to come, we hope to heal, and we pray our eyes met two nights and a day ago i'd lacked the courage then to say hello. Copyright © Roberto Delgado | Year Posted 2023 |
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Details | Roberto Delgado Poem 40 Hsieh: thunder and rain set ini had never before forgiven in this way i have now never had had the opportunity not by this order of magnitude back then the plains were vast travelers and hunters explored in peril (fatal, perpetual) they could lose both origin and destination the lands uninhabited are different substantially from those on which we've set our tracks from those we've decided what they ought to be their scent and taste the horizon's shape he must have been thirsty the first man to have seen a landscape shifting by an obstinacy of buffaloes numbered by the thousands he must have regretted with each step what all was left behind still attached to the carcasses lined but there is a measure to what may be carried daily slights bloodless injuries nicks at our self esteem and this harm direct intent we are some place we've never been thirsty i will lead our way. Copyright © Roberto Delgado | Year Posted 2023 |
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Details | Roberto Delgado Poem 20 Guan: contemplating - 1985there's that one place point from where it bounces aligned but the sequenced lights don't reach the top they stop close enough to sweat my hands i shake dry through the cold air always colder darker in the arcade to make the bright brighter as it speeds my breath stays and my eyes not so much follow but rather twitch a pulse ahead of the expectation in this chromed cacophony i find ablution a moment of purifying exhilaration a wind whose flow constant bends then stills the prairie grass each blade prone curved blessed the machinery gingerly coys the laws of motion and conservation self-same that demagnetize stars and unthread constellations though my mind guides my flesh limits not so my will want focus so many gears mazed stacked intentions awaiting that one ricochet near here there. Copyright © Roberto Delgado | Year Posted 2023 |