Three Poems by Lorraine Caputo

 

NIGHT EYE 

 

Through this dank night sky 

hover sack balloons, their red 

flames flickering past 

Aldebaran, crimson eye 

of that celestial bull 

 

 

 

SOJOURN 

 

Riding in the midst 

of nowhere       in the midst of 

a night with no stars 

that I can see out of this swift 

bus on a ribbon highway. 

 

But across the black 

sky I see the silhouette 

of clouds on a wind 

unfelt. The waning quarter 

moon is so bright & so white. 

 

Those fragile clouds drift 

casting her in deep shadow 

for just a moment. 

Then again she is pearly 

against the black satin night. 

 

 

 

SEARCHING FOR HALLEY’S METEORITES 

 

My eyes drift from sky 

 

to empty 

black-hour 

streets, traffic  

lights blinking, 

homes with 

drawn shades 

 

to the sky once more 

over wild country

 

Lorraine Caputo - Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 500 journals on six continents; and 24 collections of poetry – including In the Jaguar Valley (dancing girl press, 2023) and Santa Marta Ayres (Origami Poems Project, 2024). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honoured by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011), and nominated for the Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to the Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at: 

www.facebook.com/lorrainecaputo.wanderer or https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com