Chilean Ghazals
A poem
white doe — an albino ripple
in a brown silk banner of running deer
wading the Pacific in Quintera — cold paprika
ocean sparks my ankles
a squelch of kelp beneath my feet, memory
of a friendship’s misstep — a beach walk blurred
across dark pasture of parcella, jigsaw lights
blink development; blight of golden arches
atop the road’s rock-shoulder, sand dunes
press white cheeks into a hot blue sky
hoots outside my window beg me
to rise and search the nutmeg-scented dawn
Yvan gallops past in black sombrero,
bandana mask, toy gun raised
a blue bowl, two found feathers — Tucuquere [owl]
and Queltehue [lapwing] — poems stall
mare and slender foal — milk and toffee
under Venus and a crescent moon.