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Poems In Praise of the Impossible, Wild World and Its Beauty  Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-manâs land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple... Read more
Poems In Praise of the Impossible, Wild World and Its Beauty  Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-manâs land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, âbee-stung, drunkâ in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.  Excerpt from â Bonfire Operaâ  In those days, there was a woman in our circlewho was known, not only for her beauty,but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera.And sure enough, as the night wore on and the starsemerged to stare at their reflections on the sea,and everyone had drunk a little wine,she began to disrobe, loose her great bosomand the tender belly, pale in the moonlight,the Viking hips, and to let her torn raimentfall to the sand as we looked up from the flames. Less
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