Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

http://youtu.be/id5jYgUjgQo MISTY RIVER HEATHER'S SONG THIS IS A SPECIAL LOVE SONG FOR ALL THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, HERE'S HOPING SOMEONE KIND WATCHES OVER EACH AND EVERY ONE, BECAUSE IN EVERY YOUNG FACE, NO MATTER HOW ANGRY OR SAD, LIES THE BLOSSOM OF A PURE HEART, NOT EVIL WRONG OR BAD. SO IF YOU HAVE A YOUNG CHILD, BE GENTLE WISE AND KIND, AND TREAT THEM LIKE AN ORCHID, SO RARE AND HARD TO FIND, YOUR LOVE WILL BE LIKE WATER TO ALL THE SEEDS YOU SOW. FOR THEY ARE THE FAIREST FLOWERS IN LIFE¹S GARDEN WHERE THEY GROW. AND IF YOU KNOW THE OLD FOLKS, BE GENTLE WISE AND KIND, THEIR SOULS WILL SOON DEPART US, AND LEAVE THIS WORLD BEHIND, THEY'VE GIVEN US THE FUTURE, THEY TAUGHT US WHAT THEY KNOW, TO SOON BECOME A PART OF GOD'S KINGDOM WHERE THEY GO.

Sorrow’s Home when I was a child I knew encyclopedias and dictionaries— wire clothes hangers beating on my skin I looked the other way as long as my playmates groped me as if I were a girl and I was nurtured with wanderlust I sought adventure in the dark closet where my stepfather littered my pride and pain— my old poverty I was hopeful for my people were λ children floundering in dark clubs trying hard to fashion a better way war raged and peace burst out of flowers we made love on tropical nights in palm jungles near the beach

taken down for publication.

waterwings... the cold kiss    of marble sheets

submitted for publication

down for publication

snow wolf— a divide between us and the other albatross flying at an angle under cloudy skies (for Gabriela Mistral)

was submitted for publication.

afterthought... a mongoose slinks through the fence

Kite Runner — a horse in a carousel spins thru the air… before the bomb goes off tearing into the manikins

http://youtu.be/CxIN79n4jVo

a sunset  paints the moon...  looking for a way out adrift on the sails of a song

Two of my tanka published in this issue

seated in the corner of a café… Eros’s knotted roots antique case... I learn to download my Dylan tapes