Long Listed for the 2023 Griffin Poetry Awards
and lights, for a moment, the small squares
of isolation;
and they keep on going like those crazy men
who no one understands
and who pass by us noiselessly, sauntering around
the world for years
until they vanish
crazy men, crazy men
searching for a bit of sky
and some friendship.
And that street organ in the middle of the road
while the battle took place all around it,
do you remember it?
A thin boy was playing a revolutionary song
with that old, ravaged organ
until a bullet hit him and he fell.
Libros Libertad 