Two Poems
Lola Haskins, 22 September 1994
In the market a bull’s skinned head. Horned still, with black lips. A boy is carving from the cheek, slides the slices off his palm. Green flies gather on the cuts like jewels.
In the disco-bar Amalia, inside her thin black dress. Rafael, who is gone, used to hurt her. A perfume drifts from...