Join us this Sunday for Poetry Sonidos at Castelli Art Space this Sunday March 11 from 5pm to 8pm for readings from Peter J. Harris, Andrea Gutierrez, Claudia D. Hernández, Luis Antonio Pichardo and Ryan Scott Nance (me), all hosted by Yago Cura of Hinchas de Poesía as part of Gus Harper's Sojourner's Art exhibit.
You can catch Peter J. Harris reading in Los Angeles at Poetry Sonidos March 11, 2018
POTD - November 7 by Peter J. Harris
November 7
by Peter J. Harris
from a prompt by Beth Marquez
The forecast calls for pain
—Robert Cray
shoulders aching
inches from goodbye
squatting Arroyo Seco boulders
tortured foreheads tilted in
fractured intimacy
a kiss could resurrect me
heal my palsied mouth
hold off epic flood already
misting my view of receding
horizon in her beloved face
keepsake face of so many
nights my name a guitar solo
of pleasure & satisfaction
her name in wailing gratitude
beyond any lyrics I've ever sung
keepsake flood plain
we've skipped across these same boulders
sculpted by galloping waters in rainy seasons
of confessions & sensuality
namesake flood plain
sitting in for all places we've hiked
while savoring touch on narrow pathways
unraveling esoteric conversations sensing family in the wind
daring to glimpse our future on a sunset's horizon
forecast calls for pain
a momentum in opposite directions
a locomotion of unstoppable emptiness
water nowhere
not to sip nor to soften earth
we could muddy & smear on our forgiveness in a ritual of reunion
her mouth a pool of salvation
if we weren't drowning in this final telling
inflamed in our dreaded knowing
hunger too exhausted to wait for rain
Catch Peter J. Harris in Los Angeles at Poetry Sonidos March 11, 2018