Tino Villanueva Poems

Listen, you
who transformed your anguish
into healthy awareness,
put your voice
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Boston, 1973—Years had passed and I assumed a
Different life when one night, while resting from
Books on Marlborough Street (where things like
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Bick Benedict, that is, Rock Hudson in the
Time-clock of the movie, stands up and moves,
Deliberate, toward encounter. He has come out
Of the anxious blur of the backdrop, like
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Boston, 1973—Years had passed and I assumed a
Different life when one night, while resting from
Books on Marlborough Street (where things like
This can happen), there came into my room images
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I'm not easily mesmerized.
But how can you not be drawn in by swirls,
angles and whorls brought together to obey
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The unrestricted sun
had split the day in two,
and now we went
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