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Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena: Two Poems
Dispatch From a Bombed City In a café downtown an old man strokes his prayer beads the locals shovel snow a mouse enters the wound of a dream In a country nobody can locate on the map, the birds migrate to the north with the ashes of trees on their wings Yes, the world tastes bitter on the tongue but here on the roof the cats are humping -- Progress is now Made by the Number of Casualties While digging the earth, you hear the murmur of the trees. And those who have buried the dead will dig again.
Copyright 2022 Simon Anton Diego Baena
Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena is the author of the chapbook, The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening (Jacar Press). His work has appeared in Poetry Daily, The Bitter Oleander, Osiris, and elsewhere. He currently lives in the Philippines with his wife Xandy.
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I didn’t know this poet — thank you for introducing him to us/ I love those two exquisitely imagist poems!
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Yes, Simon is young and lives in the Philippines. He’s just starting to publish in the U.S. I’m glad you like his work.
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