Michael Caylo-Baradi Reads his Poetry

Always free, always open mic.  Michael Caylo-Baradi's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Galway Review, Blue Fifth Review, Blue Print Review, The Common (online), Eclectica, elimae, Eunoia Review, FORTH, Galatea Resurrects, Ink Sweat & Tears, Local Nomad, MiPOesias, Otoliths, Our Own Voice, poeticdiversity, Philippines Free Press, Poetry Pacific, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere.  An alumnus of The Writers’ Institute at The Graduate Center (CUNY), he has also written reviews and essays for New Pages, PopMatters, and The Latin American Review of Books.

http://mcaylo.blogspot.com/p/poetry.html

How to purify the air

Re-align the universe in the direction of your gaze. This is

breathing unhinged from dysfunction, clawed with need,

panting for Narcissus.

A bedroom is an occlusion that sharpens visions drooling for its

prey crucified in surrender. The howling beyond the yard

intensifies the season,

feasting on rituals that clarifies the philosophy of fangs. Wings

fluttering by the window are prayers, searching for

maps away from the city,

now submerged in bodies of lights illuminating an aftermath,

of hands intertwined, gasping for morsels of God,

to resuscitate the air.

Poem URL at OTOLITHS 43:

https://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/michael-caylo-baradi.html

Reminder – prompts available if you wish, see the below full schedule for prompts.

7 PM to 9pm Mondays (except some Holidays)

 HIMALAYAN FLAVORS Restaurant 1585 University Ave. in Berkeley, 

(near the corner of California) Off-street parking available in parking lot adjacent to the restaurant. 

 Hosts: Jim Barnard, Jan Dedrick,Bruce Bagnell, Jeannette DeBoine (J.D.), and soon, Gary Turchin.  {Nance Wogan host emeritus.}

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