W.M. Rivera Poems

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(Jeannette McLeod Hayes Moser,1899-1965) .
-The above ground tombs in New Orleans cemeteries are often referred to as “cities of the dead.”
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Magritte stuffs it all in his pipe that's not a pipe,
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Life’s daily gets us up, opening blinds,
asking questions, starting the day’s ‘why? ’
me again, stuck in inspiration’s academics.
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“Ponder how you might describe
the indescribable, ” her email challenged.
“No color. No shape. No sequence of being.”
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Fathers come and go; mine just went it seems
long ago; blood and little else between us:
the watch unfastened from his wrist in Coyoacán
he gave to me when we first met that once…
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behind accumulating clouds this morning;
reappears; it seems seduction, then the going
under Earth again as if the word ‘indefinite’
describes reality, as if life’s rhythm
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