FURIA

The crab crawls sideways
along the walls of abandoned buildings
Nobody can read the time of the sundials
The time of the forest has turned to zero
The circle of my life closes.

EL CAMINO

In the dead quiet of night
The electricity gone
And lights are out
Sensing bare feet moving
swiftly and silently
I suddenly wake up
The visitors know
nothing of my time
The place means
nothing to them
Theirs is a world
of ancient splendors
and codes of honor
They move
as in between
war and peace

EL RIO

After the hurricane
the Chavon riverbeds are brown
The fallen trees
quickly lose their vivid greens
The river runs as oblivious
to our celestial bodies
as we are to them
The architecture of darkness
is based on causality
and the victims
are dead forever.

EL REGRESO

Tropical sky and misty moon
Out of darkness walls and doorways
illuminate in the bright electric lights
and returns to darkness
In the darkness hands and limbs
babies are fed and teenagers are dating
All along the road from San Pedro
the fires are burning after
Hurricane Georges.