Time to Feast by Lorraine Caputo

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
 
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