February 2022
Bio Note: I am a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. For several decades, I and my faithful traveling companion (a.k.a., knapsack) Rocinante have been traveling through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth, and doing literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. My poetry and narratives have been published in over 300 journals on six continents; and 12 chapbooks of poetry – including On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Escape to the Sea (Origami Poems Project, 2021).
In the Headlights of Night's Journey
Massive pale bluffs
of folded rock
Brushling seeking
hold in fissures
Darkened white-washed
home sunken deep
into the earth
Black void below
sprinkled gold lights
of a village
Diamonds piercing
an ebony sky
Chill of this night
seeping into bone
©2022 Lorraine Caputo
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