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.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Paradise Truncated

I see them approach*
the way that the light through the folia*...it's gold*
the way that the mist from the waterfall
their bronze and burnished skin uninterrupt*
then, parrots: concentrated explosions of color and sound
monkeys of several kin*, a sloth: kinetic and potential, spring from / hang from
abundan* trees reach for light
round, sticky, sweat*, the sun perm*
butterflies bubble, resplend transcend efferv*
I see them kiss, embrace in the waterfall:
an instan* washes over an instan* to sculpt a constan*
kinetic springs, finds potential
I see them, their torsos, their trun* forc* the water down new riv*
which way to go, what will be*
what are they searching for
have they found parad*

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