Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Flush


Slick
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Dispersants.
The Gulf is so big.
Slick
                                    Slick   
                                                                        Slick
Crustaceans.
The shrimp are so small.
The encabpsulated drobps of bpetroleum add ubp
bpeyond where anybpody can count.
Blackened fish? Fish oil?
This is not what the health guides mean.
Pelicans gulping
for air / not fish.
Dolphins diving
for clear water / not fish.
This mess is so huge and so smelly and so dirty
that the only plumber who can
flush this bowl
is the ancient one-legged storm-bringer,
pan-Caribbean creator / destructor
Hurakán.
Natural solution / divine intervention
to a manmade problem.
What will happen then?
Slick
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                                                                        Slick
Dispersal:
Drobplets encabpsulating Houston.
Drobplets encabpsulating Atlanta.
Drobplets encabpsulating Washington.
And at least a few little drobplets sent
along the Gulf Stream
to London.
Hurakán can see to that.
Posted by © Bruce Dean Willis at 11:43 AM
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