El Salvador

Heat - by Gilberto Gonzalez y Contreras

{ Poem }

Tropical mid-day. Indolence.
/ The reddish nudity
/ of the plowed field
/ begs the coconut-tree
/ to wave its palmy fan.
/
/ The creaking wood
/ mimics the cicada.
/ Silence walks on…

Heat - by Gilberto Gonzalez y Contreras

{ Poem }

Tropical mid-day. Indolence.
/ The reddish nudity
/ of the plowed field
/ begs the coconut-tree
/ to wave its palmy fan.
/
/ The creaking wood
/ mimics the cicada.
/ Silence walks on…

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