Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

caressing  the sand with my shadow I wish I had smile  replacements and a repertoire  of ways of expressing myself

the color of my skin at the far side of the bars-- voices from behind the wall locked away

his HIV status was positive and he forgot to mention it… I'm burning up the sun to say goodbye* *David Tennant's , says this in a Dr. Who, Doomsday episode

I cross a bridge to another bridge day smells of sun and resin… my flesh lost in dreams

we play pool with our voices at the edge of the pond fenced in by mountains

a Chinese fish hides behind the rocks of a wet heart I know, I was there inside the mirror

I wish my life could fall into death like a spring of beautiful water... sensual, happy, diluted

tripping over wandering jew on my mother's grave you arrived like the tinted dawn weak, sad, yet shiny

november breeze the kitchen door blew open the gift was small a single pearl earring... oh misery, where is your salve?

first she was naked then she got dressed mine forever poetry

I don't know    hoe to say it,   because    it's not yet made...   my silent word  his nakedness  and the sea  live inside me   like autumn,  to me, it still is   autumn  I can feel the frost now*  *Autumn, Barbara Streisand

past twilights were twenty shades of winter and there were blue violet roses in the sky

worn out  in the haze of a dream the afternoon  blooms in heavenly  orchards when I read you

pila de estiércol restos agrios de la noche   fría como dicen estas profundamente oculto en mi alma

silence  tearing up my dawn chilliness  of daybreak bitter debri of night

eyes full  of nostalgia sadness full of the scent of roses shadows glim like sighs

fear  settles in your brain a fog--  I was born under water like a circle

there's a new flag  flying in Washington after five decades  of antarctic cold, cubana lust  makes me want to dance