NEXT TIME IN ISLA if you sit quietly watching coconuts sleep on a sturdy roof of sticks, you might notice the simmering carribean sea in the distance you might wonder what lies beyond the glistening smooth horizon cuba havana an ice cream cone dripping on my tropical shirt decorated with lighthouses where a laughing schoolgirl […]
AWAKENING alone in a leafy Lotus Beach Hotel refuge vanilla buddha just sits chock-full of paradise slick black morning catbirds whistle at cooey coy lovey dovies preening as ancient drums keep time etching new psychic tattoos spreading nature’s portrait an original face looking back from the mirror at drunken saints and sober sinners […]
SPIKE if you look closely enough you can see the black spiny-tailed iguana she can see you, too calling herself “espiga” she minds her own business unless you bother her or her baby then she bites you can’t see the little one, though calling herself “pica,” something that bites, she’s more daring than her mother […]
MOONBEAMS lost and gone forever, tourists say moon goddess Ixchel listens to their harsh lies see her so tiny in this photo sitting on a sliver of moon reflecting on these Maya ruins collapsed in decay gray stone temple above the sea where female spirits rise first each morning with orange sunshine slumber late at […]
CONK you can’t see us sitting on the red plastic chairs at Picus Cockteleria because we left the empty table with no evidence of our presence gone was her grilled conch pounded flat and tender conk conk who’s there conk conk who? conk anybody over the head who tries to steal a bite of her […]
