Tercios Del Muerte - GTimothy Gordon

TERCIOS DEL MUERTE

(After Miles Davis)

1
The night is bait.
Stars haunt the shadows of caves.
Somewhere Miles hips
loneliness from a cone.
Measures the moon.

2
Drums fall out
of Madrid and the night
arches like Belmonte’s
frozen back until there is
no more arch.

3
Plain notes to nowhere
and the wobbly stars
become a goatsong.
The knife night recites Solea.
With cold killing control.

Originally published by The Remington Review 2011 and the author’s book Ground of This Blue Earth, 2012

Gordon’s DREAM WIND was published 2020 (Spirit-of-the-Ram), GROUND OF THIS BLUE EARTH (Mellen), while EVERYTHING SPEAKING CHINESE received RIVERSTONE P Poetry Prize (AZ). Work appears in AGNI, American Literary R, Cincinnati PR, Mississippi R, New York Q, Phoebe, RHINO, Sonora R, Texas Observer, several nominated for Pushcarts. EMPTY will be published January 2024, BLUE BUSINESS is in-progress. (57)

He divides lives between borderland Chihuahuan Desert Southwest Organ Mountains and Asia.