Saturday, August 30, 2014

A Rosemary Nissen-Wade Poem (2)



Kuta Beach

(After Reading Lorca)


Death comes in
with the salt
at the tavern

in this country
both gentle and sinister

prancing white horses
wave-dancing men

their soft guitars at night
from across the bay

the noises
the bursts of light

mistaken for fireworks
at first

young men
with trembling hands

hard-muscled
young men of the sea
an odour of salt
and blood

death enters into the salt
as the salt enters into the death
in that tavern.


(2005)

Published Diverse-City 2006 (Anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival, Texas)

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