Poet-translator-travel writer Lorraine Caputo’s works appear in over 180 journals on six continents; and 12 chapbooks of poetry – including Caribbean Nights (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014) and On Galápagos Shores (dancing girl press, 2019). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She travels through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth. Follow her travels at:
In my dream I tell my hosts I now turn in & just entering the hazes between the worlds My head pointed towards the entrance Suddenly I sense hands reaching through the door’s broken window I thrash, trying to avoid them, to grasp their wrists But they grab mine Come, she says It is time to live like the others It is time to feast & all the night I travel, I visit But come the light of new day & the call of the egg woman below I remember not where I’d been