Showing posts with label infant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infant. Show all posts

Monday, April 30, 2012

*Yapa




April Thirtieth,
My baby's Twenty First month of life
Celebrated with his drawing
Celebrated circles, eyes, zigzags, coherent lines, dots
I cannot say when he started, few months ago?
But like all in his development
Suddenly you focus your attention, and there it is
The proof of coordination
Of meaning
Of intent
For the untrained eye
This section of the greater drawing is unintelligible
For the parent's eye
There is life in it
I share the life in him and in his drawing
Today, last day of this year's get-your-poet-out-of-the-woodwork
Tomorrow, first day in May, celebration for workers day
We will be celebrating with our baby art worker
"And thanks for all the fish"










*yapa = Argentinean for "an extra one,  free, as an act of kindness"

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Anguish





The night

Awakes my baby with tears.

No apparent cause

Just tears.

Alone he was

Wet in tears.

On my chest he rests

Full in tears.

We are born alone

He says in tears.

Dadai, cuddle me:

They are gone those fears.







 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

magic


a dolphin's passing ghost 

wreaks magic in a childs mind

splish, water sounds, splash



Sunday, April 15, 2012

dreams

he sleeps on the floor

breathing rhythmically lips parted

little prince dreaming



from tonights visiting poet, mi sweet wife

Saturday, April 14, 2012

imagine

robert doisneau-1943-le remorqueur du champ de mars


all around me all

my friends are having babies

one, two, three, surprise


all around me all

my boy and my wife

and i imagine us

 

 

 

 

image: robert-doisneau-1943-le-remorqueur-du-champ-de-mars

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, April 12, 2012

delicias

las manitas gordas

junto con su voz ronquita

juegan con la guitarra


his chunky hands

along with his husky voice

play on the guitar


 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

nite nite

first come the stories

then the songs, note after note

in my arms sleeps a boy

 

 

Monday, April 09, 2012

on Nico's learning

dolphins in the wild

dolphins in the aquarium

one conflicted mind


far and away

dolphins by Grannie's home

waters, swamp and sea


a mere mile away

a promise of protection

acquits their bondage?