Three Poems

Richard Perez

Vermont

Rain
turning into
Umbrellas;
People
turning into
roadside flares.

goodbye, Barney

on the now-cool beach
she carefully cleans
the pink pail
of her drowned child.

The desperate place

Qua, mes valorum
En scene?
MOLTO! MOLTO!
Semper valorum et shtoom!
Qua.