Poems from Annette M Velasquez
We've all seen the footage,
those grainy, black and white scenes
in documentaries,
the news
and watched depictions
in war movies;
POWS...
No,
this isn't
the twilight zone
though a pschedelic
journey
nontheless.
It's an invitation
into the
surreal
a showing of-
an intricate...
At times,
it can be preferable,
profitable
( if only for
a pschological
flowering)
to leave behind
the rational
and abandon the secure,
the...
And what is this-
the stuff of dreams?
Is it a gateway
to the subconscious
as we've been told
or merely a jumbling
of thoughts and images-...
I am-
first
and foremost
a paradox
an unusual
blend
melange
of
the old-fashioned,
conservative,
hypermoral
- all
juxtaposed
with
the...