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Mueca a la Muerte: Defiance in a Grimace

Anthony Kerrigan

That the world should end in an orgy of painย was inconceivable at my conception in the Panama Canal Zoneย where the hydraulic locks were emblems of the unity of oceans....

Paraphrase of Some Famous Lines in Spanish Literature

Anthony Kerrigan

I will become dust and you will become dustย and ashes our tongues and ashes our eyesย but, ever beloved and empassioned dust,ย our embers will last as long as the skies....

Godโ€™s Affable Principle of Cohesion

Anthony Kerrigan

I Merely the look of it, buttercup at the edge of the โ€œLawn Fallsโ€ where the water seeps, sweeps down to the seaside is enough to carry the viewer...

Old Havana

Anthony Kerrigan

. . . pongee-colored girls in white dresses the sunย shone through in multiple haloesย where they lay alongside streets like sofasย reading Josรฉ Martรญ behind potted fernsย in avenue-knolls paved with Key...

Ut Pictura Poesis

Anthony Kerrigan

The St. Jo River whirling full around the South Bend rich and dark as a negresse en chemise bedaubed with cochineal: mauve, purple tinting the water from the Odilon...