The Greater Trumps
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Ramón E. Martínez
Ramón E. Martínez grew up in New Mexico and Arizona. Poems from his full-length collection, The Receipt of Fern Seed have appeared in: A Poetry Mag, American Poetry Review, Balcones, Bilingual Review, Black Warrior Review, Cape Rock, Century, Contact II, Croton Review, Gila Review, Glens Falls Review, Graham House Review, The Greenfield Review, Inlet, Inscape, Panoply, Rio Grande Writer's Newsletter, Riversedge, Víaztlan, and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He is currently seeking a publisher for The Receipt of Fern Seed.By Ramón E. Martínez
Published on 10/1/1999
Why do they admit pale
rain to spill on pentacles,
to inherit the dominion
of burning as though great
dominoes of dark sputtered
rain to spill on pentacles,
to inherit the dominion
of burning as though great
dominoes of dark sputtered
Why do they admit pale
rain to spill on pentacles,
to inherit the dominion
of burning as though great
dominoes of dark sputtered
and cracked one another
like lightning--bringing the queen
to grief, the knave to his knees
beneath mirrors he didn't know had eyes.
Sorted out
on all counts they lie
(hip to thigh)
on a dark table where
the future is below
and after,
and what admits the future
is flawed by the past:
a spilled picture--
water and brighter water--
a dancing dog reversed
in a green climate by a hill.
Copyright © Ramón E. Martinez, 1999, 2009. All Rights Reserved.
rain to spill on pentacles,
to inherit the dominion
of burning as though great
dominoes of dark sputtered
and cracked one another
like lightning--bringing the queen
to grief, the knave to his knees
beneath mirrors he didn't know had eyes.
Sorted out
on all counts they lie
(hip to thigh)
on a dark table where
the future is below
and after,
and what admits the future
is flawed by the past:
a spilled picture--
water and brighter water--
a dancing dog reversed
in a green climate by a hill.
Copyright © Ramón E. Martinez, 1999, 2009. All Rights Reserved.