THIS IS MEXICO

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Today, the lune. From the horse's mouth of the NaPoWriMo website: "A lune is a sort of English-language variation on the haiku, meant to better render the tone of the Japanese haiku than the standard 5-7-5 format we all learned (and maybe loved) in elementary school. There are a couple of variants on the lune form, but just to keep things simple, let’s try the version developed by Jack Collum. His version of the lune involves a three-line stanza. The first line has three words. The second line has five, and the third line has three. You can write a poem that consists of just one stanza, or link many lune-stanzas together into a unified poem."

three more sleeps

then we have to leave

...until next year

We are now officially obsessed with leave-taking. How perfect, then, that the Spanish word for Monday, the day we head back north, is lunes.

This is Mexico

final Friday market

we find it has moved

so few vendors

our sojourn ends

no more walks on beach

didn't miss snow

palm frond bench
for inky grackles passing through
silhouettes on sky

margarita, tequila sunrise,
cervesa, piña colada, breakfast smoothies,
agua mineral, coffee

Pedro's fish tacos

truly best in the universe

one never enough

Torta? she asks

Marta remembers what I like

feel at home

Frida blue fence

I stop, take a picture

to remember it

newly hatched tortoise

determined to reach the ocean

never stops moving

Mondays and Thursdays

Iyengar yoga with Jo Anna

stretches body, soul

sunset, Bambu Bar

writers gather on the beach

toss words around

lesson for today

more clouds equals better sunset

there's a metaphor

we move out

pigeons prepare to move in

this is Mexico

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