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Nocturne

April 27, 2020 Issue 19, Issue 19 Poetry, Poetry

Blue, the infinite within a boundary hue.
Edo artists relished its blood-drain
of sea dawns. Westerners learned to brew
from the Virgin’s mantle the brim celestial stain.

Scarpia (Aside)

April 30, 2018 Issue 15, Issue 15 Poetry, Poetry

By RICARDO PAU-LLOSA

Tosca

I heard those ripened, muted swoons, although
that was no kiss—a dagger sunk into my chest.
What use authority if it cannot impose
a hidden will? The songbird, let her muse
the painter in his cavern, his mettle at the test,