Alterations. Poems by Dana De Greff, selected by Dan Vera and Ron Mohring as Number Eight in the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series.

Publication: August 21, 2018
21 pages

How Many More Days

As in, how many more days can we camp without getting killed by Alvaro, Alvaro

who drinks enough for three. Alvaro with teeth the color of licorice.

As in, how much longer until Patagonia gets a chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous

or Adulterers Anonymous, or Andes Anonymous as in, we climb up

and over the Andes in every conversation.

Hard to talk about the weather when pumas fall from the sky, when condors

and armadillos lurk like innuendos. As in, a single man is more lonely

than a guanaco macho surrounded by ten hembras.

How much further to the end of the story, the one where la gaucha y el gaucho ride off with a horse,

one of them steering towards

the ivory cliffs.

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