Two Poems by Alvaro Cardona-Hine from The Curvature of the Earth, a book of poems by poets Gene Frumkin and Alvaro Cardona-Hine, University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
(The blog doesn’t permit the format of a poem, so I’ve used two slashes to indicate the end of a stanza.)
A Woman in the Forest
winters pass
and everything blooms
that had a hidden wish
behind it//
the snow holds tight
onto a crocus
white on white
Italian Wine
in drinking
one knows
a ranunculus
has been pressed
with the grapes
to give a lover’s kiss
an altered mind//
there it sings
tighter than a rose
as young birds
melt away
in praise//
for love is something
like an unbuttoned blouse
