Louise Landes Levi


Three Poems

Golden
& blue eyed / what
I cld. not / now to perceive /

'childlike' the equanimity.

the moment
                              of

LOSS /
                                loving you

in my infant heart /

Pedro González, 2003

*

The
         source of my invisibility

                                                    is

                                                        the taste buds

          apple, orange, clove

if you are below the equator

tamarind, miraposa, papaya

if you are above the galaxy

     neon atomic particles
         guide you beyond

Sargoza, 2004

*

Granada

Above
Granada, the acid
air / still, reeks of
Moorish intention / while

above NYC, the radio-
acticity is hidden fr. view / above
Seville, LSD creates the
havoc we once
celebrated,
while
on e. 9th street,
Danny takes photos of
the chem trails,

the
genocidal,
spirit, that
prevailed on the
battlefield now prevails
in the medicine cabinet, O you
who poison & obscure, look to
Granada for comfort, you
who turn the air to
poison who tell
me free water
is
      a
                   crime.

NYC, 5.19.2009




Louise Landes Levi, poet, traveler, translator, & musician.
USA - Played in Daniel Moore's Floating Lotus Opera
Company, then Eastward to India, studied music

in Bombay, National Center for Performing Art,
& private instruction, continued at Conservatory of
Music, Basel, & Al Akbar Khan College of music in San Rafael, California.

"Granada" has previously appeared in Wild Flowers, no. 8, published by Shivastan, Woodstock-Kathmandu 2012.
 
 
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