The Night of the Iguana | Derek Pollard Burton and Gardner in Black and white On the wall Next to me Across North Temple The spinning wheel Of the Gateway Inn Dusk gone green Beside The Red Iguana LOVE = LEAVING SPACE AROUND LOVED ONE The light outside Florescent now And deepening Muriel set To arrive soon From Cincinnati Here the air Smells of Cilantro and Pumpkin seed Cage’s Work On Paper echoing The napkin On the table Splotched With salsa And a strand Of lime If only these Trumpets could Bring me the sea Instead I am handed Another Modelo Wrapped in chintzy Gold leaf My watch Ticking louder Even than The three kids Bouncing Up and down On their chairs At the table Behind me It’s the middle Letters in the poems That I keep staring at Wondering if Cage Is laughing at me Burton and Gardner Are even now Simply ravishing The mountains Gone black behind The storm clouds Out over the salt flats Muriel is in flight Chicagoland, Chicagoland Ma puce in cloud The beer is cold The enchilada sauce Thick as blood Drying dark On my napkin It seems too easy For us to succumb To this moment The mesostics Leading us all Toward The greeny night Over North Temple The storm already Beginning to fall Away from the valley The music And the children Triumphant In their careless Caterwauling While we move closer To one another You through the air And me through My waiting  read about the author Contributors.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0
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