Spanish Dance

slowly the crow lower than ever overhead

shed the remaining rays of day

their wings move thick air pulse

the boy in him lies in the same place he was born

lies in the subtle disguising dim but wonders out loud

stares into the flood of blue space

bridges collapsing in the stream

this is the distance in him speaking

this is the travel of one

freely fearlessly he dances dances

at last ecstatic he applauds

there is no one to hear

no one to see

the last of this

his spanish

dance

JP Pestana

Spanish Dance

11.22.2020

 

A New You

I have no memory

of dark suns running from me

of the thunderous irritations

of a frightened night

of the abandoned child crying broken

in a grove of broken trees weeds over graves

but I should

but please go ahead

set me free from the most heavenly among us

enthusiastic clap of dead eyes

echo of the most righteous ghosts

echoes of hollow lies

and who is the he that stands shivering uncertain

pleading to the most minor of gods

mythical bowing

to the new truth

of a new

you

jppestana

A New You

10.26.2020

Death of Birds

within a circle small

children kneel

in their tears crumbles

of warm earth

the sky calls their names

growing softer over time

the conflicted light embraces

its telling shadows

their lowered eyes

hidden from me

time crawls stops

the great egret passes high

so slowly over tall trees

green summer water

is this the illusion

ask me again

ask me when it

begins again

when the death

of birds and

the cold hand of truth slaps at me

wakes me from this holiest of

restless sleeps

Death of Birds

jppestana

10...2.2020of

Hurricane Rain

dogs bark harshly at nothing seen

a shrinking sky obscures

it's comes as sure as louisiana drowns

the old church bell tolls its loneliness less me

sees what there is to see

meet the newly half blind man

weeping trees

the brown stream through the heart

races crazily from here to there

from the same trees emerges the shoeless woman

holding her shoes high

black dress clinging

black umbrella twisting in wind

she splashes happily

going her own way

to her only

eternity

jppestana

Hurricane Rain

8.30.2020

 

Hurricane Rain

dogs bark harshly at nothing seen

a shrinking sky obscuring

it's coming as sure as louisiana drowns

the old church bell tolls loneliness less me

sees what there is to see

meet the newly half blind man

weeping trees

the brown stream through the heart

races crazily from here to there

the shoeless girl holding her shoes high

clinging black dress black umbrella spinning

splashes happily

on her way

to her only

eternity

 

jppestana

Hurricane Rain

8.30.2020

Collection

if I could only remember you

what you showed me when 

my sight was dimmer 

than the lost caves 

of my youth

in my usual stumble

I see impenetrable clouds towering

brilliantly impossibly blue they collect me 

push me to the edge

did you ask me 

what they were

and below me sweetgum and sassafras

easy growing willows

a mottled sun straining to be seen 

in the last days 

of collected

puddled 

rain

Collection

jppestana

8..23..2020

 

Collection

 

if only I could remember you
what you showed me when
my sight was dimmer
than the lost caves
of my youth
in my usual stumble
I see impenetrable clouds towering
brilliantly impossibly blue they collect me
push me to the edge of this
did you ask me 

what they were

what they mean

wonder aloud about my helpless soul
and below me sweetgum and sassafras
easy growing willows sway

a mottled sun trapped 

in the knotted grass

of collected

puddled
rain

 

Collection
jppestana
8..23..2020