Lorca’s Gone AWOL

Mike Essig
Other Voices
Published in
1 min readJan 13, 2018
Saatchi Art

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches… FGL

Songs of summer, blooms and blossoms.
Oh, Lorca, sing of fleshy pears and spring,
voluptuous pomegranates and fecund earth,
as anvils of ice assail the bleak world
and hope finds no redemptive dawn.
The icy rain corrodes this morning.
Lush, Latin loveliness washes away
and southern desire has turned polar.
Lorca, where are your plums and amor,
the Spanish walks and warm, willing thighs
on this messy morning of rain and pain,
when angry northern clouds fill the raging sky,
and the soul would rather stay in bed or die.
Death, vicious death, leave a green branch for love.

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Mike Essig
Other Voices

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.