Bonfire Opera: Poems
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    [synopsis] => Sometimes the most compelling landscapes are the ones where worlds collide: where a desert meets the sea, a civilization, no-man's land. Here in Bonfire Opera, grief and Eros grapple in the same domain. A bullet-hole through the heart, a house full of ripe persimmons, a ghost in a garden. Coyotes cry out on the hill, and lovers find themselves kissing, "bee-stung, drunk" in the middle of road. Here, the dust is holy, as is the dark, unknown. These are poems that praise the impossible, wild world, finding beauty in its wake.

Excerpt from "Bonfire Opera"
In those days, there was a woman in our circle 
who was known, not only for her beauty,
but also for taking off all her clothes and singing opera.
And sure enough, as the night wore on and the stars 
emerged to stare at their reflections on the sea, 
and everyone had drunk a little wine, 
she began to disrobe, loose her great bosom 
and the tender belly, pale in the moonlight, 
the Viking hips, and to let her torn raiment 
fall to the sand as we looked up from the flames.
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