The Andalusian Dog Finds Answers by Pablo Medina

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend March 9, 2017   The Andalusian Dog Finds Answers   Pablo Medina

God likes to be played like a piano. Dawn glows with sailors dancing in the eye of a storm by the river of black water. These days things make sense under the green and yellow and brown sky of Granada and I wear a tie as penance for the sins of my navel. The saints of the north and the saints of the south fly by dropping scorpions down my neck and those women with fire in their eyes drink melon juice and wink. I play billiards on the other side of town thinking bone in and bone out is the legacy of canines. The camouflage, the hunt, the war of ice and water. God knows. He clinks all day and night. Fly me to the moon. Yes, I'd rather be sleeping. A slender, tender rain comes over Granada and the storm passes and the city sighs.            Copyright © 2017 Pablo Medina. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "It is said that the title of the 1929 surrealist film Un chien andalou (An Andalusian Dog) by Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel was an indirect and none-too-kind reference to Federico García Lorca, the third point of that creative triangle, who was born just outside the Andalusian city of Granada. The sigh in the last line refers to the Moorish King Boabdil, who sighed deeply as he abandoned Granada to the armies of Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492." —Pablo Medina   Pablo Medina is the author of The Island Kingdom (Hanging Loose Press, 2015). He teaches at Emerson College and lives in Boston.       Poetry by Medina   The Island Kingdom (Hanging Loose Press, 2015)  "The Little Mute Boy" by Federico García Lorca "A Book of Music" by Jack Spicer "Gic to Har" by Kenneth Rexroth Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. If you enjoy Poem-a-Day, please consider making a donation to help make it possible. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038