Thursday, June 10, 2010

punta del este

buildings protrude from your navel

clothing your naked sand

with thorns and asphalt streets

sleepy

on a winter morning

of fog and humid air

sticky with salt


i can smell the ocean

in your hair

taste tears

on your tongue


the song of sirens

remains in your throat

hundreds of sailor's voices

lost in the history

of your jagged rocks


the past is a bird

gliding over waves

and forgotten shores

immortalized in statues of stone


the corpse of a tortoise

rotting in its shell

the putrid stench of death

decaying

on the steps of your temple


golden breasts of Europa

carried away by bestial heat

(incarnation of gods)

to the plundering city

of kings

across the Atlantic

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