Mervin Mirapuri (1945–2020)


SELECTED POEMS

an excerpt from requiem for non-creation

from hospital windows 
sick people
people sick
watching
red flowers bloom on green trees
counting
distant grey slabs of life
listening
for bus sounds, car horns
alone, alone
seeing rain fall
through holes in roofs
saying
maybe no one lives there
this evening her lover comes
he carries no red flowers

by Mervin Mirapuri
from Eden 22 (1974)

SELECTED POEMS: an excerpt from A Walk with My Pig >