Sergio A. Ortiz- Three Poems

for Gertrude Stein

yes, I was cancelled,

an abyss below my bed

yet I was cancelled

nobody came, nobody came—

unknown shore— I’m enraptured

for Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven

bane aging

hip pains -- walk

penetrating

 -- -- -- S. O. S.  memory

treads caution

Tribute to Cid Corman

There is a voice

in the dense space

of silence,

leaning on the sun and

dying

in the community of words,

images

that weave simple possibilities.

           
Sergio A. Ortiz is the founding editor of Undertow Tanka Review. He lives in San Juan Puerto Rico.  He is a four-time nominee for the 2010-2011 Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a two-time 2010 Pushcart nominee.