Dog Barking at the Moon
(painting by Joan Miró)
 
 
The moon cannot hear
(given its distance away)
nor does it comprehend
(given its lack of a brain)
the barks and grunts
of a dog
(speaking Pekinese
and Chihuahuan)
expecting a simple reply
from a light in the sky.
 
It is pointless, of course:
dogs do what they do
to mailmen, passersby,
anything that moves
and doesn’t.
 
While the moon     
Indifferent, stubborn
oblivious
does nothing at all
(a is its course)
as expected
(unless by a barking dog)
from a piece of rock.


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Copulation
(painting by Roberto Matta Echaurren)
 
 
Copulation for the sake of it
a moment  a coupling
two minds two souls
 
two worlds intertwined
in the ecstasy of a flame
in a struggle of opposites
 
just a moment
then a calm the act
forgotten the reason  
 
none other than the urge
to feel the joining heat
as if it were enough
 
then asleep
in the ashes
of regret.