Jeffrey Zable- A Poem

BIO: Jeffrey Zable is a teacher and conga drummer who plays Afro Cuban Folkloric music for dance classes and Rumbas around the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in hundreds of literary magazines and anthologies. Recent writing in Serving House Journal, Futures Trading, Unscooped Bagel, Mocking Heart Review, Houseboat (featured poet), 2015 Rhysling Anthology, Revolution John, Abbreviate Journal, Weirderary, Third Wednesday, Mas Tequila, DogPlotz, Bookends Review, The Vein and many others.

                                     

                                                                              

     THE RETURN

We sit on the roof of twilight

remembering glaciers

that melted in our hands,

and insidious batons

that waved over our heads,

turning to dust

in the moon’s red eye.

We could run with lobsters

through sands of delirium

on marigold beaches,

or jostle with ladders

whose broken tongues

lick yesterday’s salt.

We could burn with fragrance

in a numbing aphasia

at the bottom of the sea

and finally return home

to a city of avalanches

and ten thousand fingers

unraveling our names.

First published in Ditch, 2013