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Many of these poets have Books. Find them at Amazon Books: Just type in their names.
 Waiting Rooms

They talk of days after the war
of the days before
Those disembodied days
that once danced in the sun

Others talk of sisters in Virginia
trading recipes of delicious cakes
Solitary baking at dawn
till gathering birds fly off in a swarm swoop

Still others talk of grandchildren
Of their faces chubby and rosy,
faces like cherubs
Their eyes are nebulae, are birthing of themselves

And I sit among the blinded,
the youngest of them all
No walking cane
or skin grappling with gravity

In my late twenties, my eyes
are wild with ash
One with shrieks inside it,
the other smothered in soot

I wish I were in another place
Where raging sunlight is graceful
The words of books,glimmering
in just the right angle

Instead madly I wait,
in the scented dark of waiting rooms
Hoping one day
the music of my eyes bloom



 Radames Ortiz