canceled

 

 

canceled

 

 

like most things, we’re cancelled

 

lend me your body

let my thorns lie to rest

 

our crossing points are incompatible

systems—they find a language in possibility

 

of Spinozian sad passions

and thus we don’t agree

 

in nature—the afternoons lack

luster and wonder in the landscape

 

of silence—like still lives we can’t

overcome in this continuous patchwork

 

we call indifference, a subtlety for power

 

 

Elidio La Torre Lagares

 

Elidio La Torre Lagares is a poet, educator and author of the well-received poetry book 'Wonderful Wasteland and Other Natural Disasters."