Rincon Memories
cemetery by the water
constant easterly tradewinds
at the rise of Calle Martillo – El Flamboyan
named after bright red flowering trees
Delores serving us on the patio
backdrop of palms
overlooking the Caribbean
whales teaching their young to follow the coastline
shrimp mofongos, empanadas, fried plantains
pineapple banana rum drinks
running the Puerto Rican hills
native Taino art printed on tee shirts
abdominal exercises on the back deck
sunbathing naked then sun-poisoned
Elsie the cow coming for mango handouts
case of Medalla in the fridge
old, rusted nuclear reactor dome by the beach
Sunken, crooked concrete steps at the surf
Indigo Girls singing Prince of Darkness
Willy Conley’s most recent book is Photographic Memories – Essays, Playlets, and Stories. His other books are: Plays of Our Own – An Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers, Visual-Gestural Communication: A Workbook in Nonverbal Expression and Reception, The World of White Water – Poems, Listening Through the Bone – Collected Poems, The Deaf Heart, and Vignettes of the Deaf Character and Other Plays. Born profoundly deaf, Conley is a retired professor and former chair of Theatre Arts at Gallaudet University (the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students) in Washington, D.C.
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