PUPPETS

German puppets burned the Jews Jewish puppets did not choose Puppet vultures eat the dead Puppet corpses they are fed Puppet winds and puppet waves Puppet sailors in their graves Puppet flower, puppet stem Puppet time dismantles them Puppet me and puppet you Puppet German Puppet Jew Puppet Presidents command Puppet troops to burn the …

THE NIGHT OF SANTIAGO

She said she was a maiden That wasn’t what I heard For the sake of conversation I took her at her word The lights went out behind us The fireflies undressed The broken sidewalk ended I touched her sleeping breasts They opened to me urgently Likelilies from the dead Behind a fine embroidery Her nipples …