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Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 23, 2024

MOMENTS our picture now graces the wall at abuelos the young woman server at the small family restaurant asked if she could snap our image you’re a beautiful couple, she said i ordered a large margarita with salt and lime stephanie asked for the cabernet a whole bottle so I could carry what she didn’t […]

Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 22, 2024

THIRD EYE an afternoon siesta in the sun seems like a lousy idea too hot to sleep beneath beach umbrellas anchored in the sand who dares doze on plush cushions stretched across seaweed free playa norte? who orders orange neon drinks swimming in cracked ice delivered by young barefoot women wearing thin black ankle-length sundresses? […]

Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 21, 2024

IGUANA empty in peach sun above the beach morning drinks at the guru beach club for world travelers rich enough to afford luxury our terrace awakes to mango pudding heat and hummus humidity soaking rich and poor in mexican majesty or yucatán misery swimming with the lizards isn’t for everybody survival depends on the lizard

Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 20, 2024

TURTLES you couldn’t see them at first but they were out there bobbing helmeted heads riding the tide ancient surfers from faraway lands a thousand miles away swimming toward edgy earth to accept Ixchel’s help in choosing a mate connecting in cosmic unity giving birth to new life that awakened in sifting sand before crawling […]

Maya Poems of Isla Mujeres

May 19, 2024

SATORI my first drink off the menu brought mescal and pepper salt to cracked dry lips a welcome drink at the guru beach club bar ah, good, sings a brown-faced jack kerouac diety in a song sung by a black messenger bird sand seeker suckers at the bar don’t hear jack’s melody i whistle back […]

The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch