Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

warm, isn’t it you’re always talking nonsense, warm, isn’t it— I’m cold with you caliente, no es así siempre estas diciendo necedades caliente, no es así— yo siento frio contigo

NEW GUIDELINES FOR UNDERTOW TANKA REVIEW 1.     We will only be publishing 5 to 25 tanka, so send the very best. We're going to be very selective. 2.     Please don’t send traditional 31 syllable tanka, they will be rejected. 3.     We are looking for avant-garde, surreal, light-verse tanka poems. 4.     We are also open to haiku, the same amount will be selected for publication, we prefer modern haiku, nothing traditional. 5.     We are open to submissions year round, but will publish poems online three times a year starting May, 2016. Submission Windows From Oct. 15 to Dec. 15 for Jan. issue From Feb. 15 to Apr. 15 for May issue From Jun. 15 to Aug. 15 for Sep. issue ANNOUNCEMENT:  We have a new assistant editor, Rajan Garg rajangarg.thapar@gmail.com Sergio Ortiz, editor undertowtanka@gmail.com http://undertowtankareview.blogspot.co m/ 

I am and I am not the one waiting for you in a park next to a river… November light broken in the thicket

our sea of sorrow doesn’t know how to be rid of itself— my prison is equal to itself, each wave wants to be the last

frozen  on a hospital bed  my  mother’s body--  not even the dead  last forever