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Excerpt from «In the Jaguar Valley»

Midnight Echoes

A solitary church bell

      across the valley encircled

            by mountains & snow-peaked volcanoes

Slow       one toll       then another       & …

      of this hour


Foot falls

      down grimed brick sidewalks

Past a towering basalt cross

Across the worn grey stones

      of the plaza

Past the gated fountain

      still spilling


Stray & pet dogs

      barking       & barking

From blackened homes       on dim corners

      down narrow cobbled streets

            & blind alleys


Pounding       pounding

      on a centuries-old door

Thick oak wood polished by

      untold rapping knuckles

& guarded by iron

      clasps & bolts, locks

            heavy wooden bar

 
Police whistles

      scattered throughout the dark

            like cricket song

 © Lorraine Caputo

You can read an interesting interview with Lorraine HERE.

«In the Jaguar Valley» can be purchased from Dancing Girl Press HERE. This link also has a book desription.

Author Biography

Lorraine Caputo is a wandering troubadour: documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear in over 400 journals on six continents, and 23 collections of poetry – including Notes from the Patagonia (dancing girl press, 2017), On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019) and Caribbean Interludes (Origami Poems Project, 2022). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. Her writing has been honored by the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada (2011) and nominated for the Best of the Net. 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.