Lars Palm (Las Palmas, Spain): "Eighteen Easy Pieces"
EIGHTEEN EASY PIECES
you know you're
in a subtropical
place when the
consensus view
of a good winter
is of a cool &
rainy one
**
these small note
books & pads
seem to get filled
with scribbles on
a weekly basis
& behind my back
as i was writing
that a fire engine
told the cars ahead
it was approaching
in the right hand
lane
what to make of that?
**
there is an
other town
smaller by
all means on
the roofs of
this one that
smaller town is
where i
live
**
up at first light
hit the streets
the streets hit back
the fight is short
**
(on desalination)
it still baffles me how
an island can possibly
have a shortage of water
**
there is a name to
this street somewhere
there is a name to
this street somewhere
there is a street
**
making nonsense
may be more subversive
than making sense
**
all of
a sudden
there's this
really warm
WIND
bringing the
temperature up
by seven
degrees celsius
in
less than
ten minutes
& all
this sand
&
dust &
debris coming
from all
directions
**
if there isn’t
room to park you
make room at
least if you’re
not quite sober
**
(small spring poem early february)
two days in a
row the construction
workers in the house next
door have awoken me
just before dawn
singing arias
**
(meal in the shade)
bread & beer & granny smith
which don’t fit?
**
a puppy so
hyperactive he
unties people’s
shoes
**
in the wind it
is an
old wooden ghost
ship coming
in
**
(on wasting)
it no longer baffles me
how an island can have
a shortage of water
**
the bus is late
a dog in a raincoat walks by
someone is baking riot-bread
**
(keeping it simple)
what it all comes
down to is
this: do I want
to read this
again?
**
who forgot to switch the wind off?
**
(poema de teror)
sleepy little
mountain
town full
of butter
flies
© 2006 Lars Palm
