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Volume IV
March 2006


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Three poems from
Andalusian Dawn
Cherry Grove Collections, 2004

Humedad
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On a humid night like this—
olive leaves turn silver,
air is as still as a statue of a saint,
mosquitos come out with their neumatic tools
to drill for four thousand red blood cells.


On a humid night like this—
figs on the fig trees shake their bellies
and laugh their way into a purple ripeness,
the farmer’s young wife down the dirt road slaps
a mosquito on her naked thigh.
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