Edwin Torres Poems

I've just requested Up Up and Away
by The Fifth Dimension from the piano lady
But play it slow... 'Slow?..oh!' she says
with a heavy New Jersey accent, eyelids
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eein the tradition
ov The YEAR Of The WHO-man
ov Black HIS-story MONTH
ov Secre-TARRIAL's WEEk
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it is like a discovered dream
lodged in the memory from a mountain's mist
swaying through underbrush, thick as mountain coffee
culembra-steps over plantain leaves
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THAT ONE, is a poet for all poets
AH, then I would suppose
to be an edwin for all edwins
OH, then there is only one of you
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Pixie-dust infusion
shoots steady shock through incline—
is that crooked
or slyster meat tong, grabbing hold of night
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taking in what it hears
surprised at the way of path
the laid down before
the adventured after
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Who is quitting dogs today? Making them their sister?
Who is stretched out by a lamppost sibling? Illuminated by ransom’s note?
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I am the guest of a prince. I stay at his palace and share my room with two other talents. The three of us are unique and in demand. We are each 10 stories tall. We do what we do and what no one else does. Our limbs are a hike, folding path over glory.
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dirtspeech
earthtongue
race be language
before nation
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I saw you Empire State Building
looking for your twin brothers
I saw you
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