Hecho y Reposado
Hey, kids -- Still at a poetry conference in Mexico, but I wanted to post another postcard to you. SIESTAI close my eyes, the room is semi-dark, I hope to go incomunicado -- Yo soy uno whooped-ass...
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Mike,In "Siesta," the meter's kinda loose-perhaps to mirror the "borracho" social climate? A few points of Spanish orthography: "incomunicado" and "tequila" don't have double consonants; and "hour's"...
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Mike,I've been enjoying your bilingual play in these poem. Siesta tops them all, especially in line 3. The play with fermenting soul to reflect the tequila in the last line is good too.I have some...
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M'seeka & Mel & others -- Thanks a lot for your comments & suggestions on the Mexico poems. I have taken as many as I could. I'm back from the heady atmosphere of San Miguel de Allende...
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Mike, I envy your ability with a light, unexpected line. Heck, I turn children's tales into something grim. It's entertaining to see something with an entirely different perspective.The second one...
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Hello Mike.The fact that I haven't commented on your Mexican posts doesn't mean I don't think they're delightful; quite the reverse.It's just that I have no constructive comments to improve them.Regards
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I've been out of pocket for awhile (and it looks like it will go on) but I can see Mexico was a fruitful trip for you. Your Spanglish is excellent.TH
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I've been lurking around admiring these and even more those that were in the new formalist and at the risk of upping the callously sofisticated metalinguistic academic one-up-man-shipful ante I would...
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Peter--sofistically speakin' -- thanks(actually I'm kickin' myself for not reversing the order of the last two lines in King Cake)-- Miguelito
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