He calls out to all seated in silk and florals
To believe
Another life we have
Far greater and bigger than here
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Meet Luciann Berrios - Astoria native and Tribes Poet.
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Some say a sad poem is slightly better than a bad poem. I had the habit of writing both.
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Our acknowledged and unacknowledged tragedies
just underfoot.
All ground might be hallowed ground.
I want to go everywhere, but how do I trod?
Read MoreYou are being led to yourself
putting things down and picking things up.
Every night you wash in loss and satisfaction.
You have not yet learned the language of your prayers
but have felt them move inside you like a child.
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The art of losing isn’t hard to master
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As I gazed the length and breadth of nature’s creations,
i saw the upper and lower identities of its limitation.
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We never would have heard the beat if Jim had not forgotten his hat,
In our bedroom at Casa Brandaritz,
The old farm house, built in the 16th century,
Same family
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“I don’t care what you’ve heard,”
she said, “because you may have heard
something different than I.
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It was the second round of flashlight tag. We’d been screeching up a storm of fake horror since the sun set. Beth was “it.” I ran far away from her and crouched behind a headstone at the edge of the cemetery grounds near the field.
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The Congolese musicians arrived. They went immediately into their complex bongo, conga, and chakra rhythms, making their opening sequence a tribute to their African deities. This was accompanied by a lively dance, performed by lithe, agile male and female dancers, each of whom had obviously been honing their craft since childhood.
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Luciann Berrios' debut collection bursts out from "under the shadow of a memory," offering not simply poems but chronicles of movement, forward and backward in time.
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"Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic."
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