Chicano Poet

Wednesday, January 24, 2007


The Potato Eaters

for becky

They do not smell the oil lamp burning,
it does not make their eyes water,
the dust which fills the house

came from across the valley.
Outside, the stars
push on the roof with light.

The potato eaters huddle
in a hunger we can’t understand,
we don’t have the gut for it anymore.

The chairs are rough, uncomfortable perhaps,
table unsquare --- only the lamp
keeps the walls from crushing them, and us.

3 Comments:

At 10:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

We forget that kind of hunger...but its taste never leaves us.
Becky

 
At 12:37 AM, Blogger RC said...

And,in the end,it's good that it never does.

 
At 7:32 PM, Blogger Poetry From The Creek said...

Reyes, this is a classic - out there past Lorca. Congratulations! Regards, Ivan

 

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