poetry surfing
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Below, Naomi Quiñonez, author of Sueno de Colibri/Hummingbird Dream and The Smoking Mirror reads at the Achiote Press Reading at UC Berkeley. [Thanks to poet Oscar Bermeo for this link, and for bringing the poetry of Nina Serrano to my attention.]
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“Poets in San Francisco”
(A legend about Anais Nin and Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
by Nina Serrano
It feels good to write poems in San Francisco
But it would be better if someone
wanted to read listen and talk about poems
in San Francisco.
There is a place where poets meet and love each other
Once I thought it was San Francisco
but when I got there their coffee houses turned into dress stores.
I think the place where poets meet
lies in an inner space between
The ribs the lungs and hurting loneliness.
A poet fills his bags with rose petals
and empties it on the head
of another poet.
Her hair is full of petals.
There love poems rhymed and metered bloom
and in that moment of raining flowers
is the place I want to be.
