Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

Dream Prism A cornlike monster with ugly tang fish gills dreams of becoming a mermaid prodigy dishing out rhymes to a clown farther off than Australia.  She travels with a fat English prawn and a psychotic pickle renown for his voodoo medicine; His license revoked after performing a fatal bypass on an Italian bean. Their eyes turned yellow in the shade- less sockets of stillborn lizards.  Seven stop signs grew from their toes.  They were thieves, untouchables in the crevice of a very small toad, comfortless as vinegar.  They found my chiseled amethyst love letters and turned them to angels weeping dead, icy heads.  But I budded  as a May amapola and ascend  just like my grandmothers before me ascended. ©  Sergio A. Ortiz, April 1, 2010

To the Zookeeper on the Hudson This poem was taken down because it has been accepted for publication. ©  Sergio A. Ortiz, April 30, 2010