Le Fantôme Restaurant Montreal

Le Fantôme Montreal

This is not a restaurant.

This is performance art.

A romantic fantasy eve,

a taste of the past stirs

a perfume of the future.

There is no neon entry sign.

Build sculptures of candles,

burned upon other nights,

stars melt upon an altar.

Prix fix courses appear

as dreams of ancestors

to create magical dishes

Sit back, enjoy Čehrāzād's

stories to taste of heaven.

Four White Coats

Four White Coats verses Resistant Leukemia

your doctorate degree doesn't fix it

calling all experts to solve the problem

artificial intelligence transmit

is amber chalk a right pill for autumn?

Four White Coats verses Resistant Leukemia

a year of chemo hasn't cleared his blood

a child grows thin as wheat stalks without rain

a day passes and doctors mix up mud

a clock stops chiming from the pounding pain.

Four White Coats verses Resistant Leukemia

A full moon rises as I kneel to pray
Ticking seconds are time we share today 

Caroline Gerardo 

poem and images copyright October 2018 

Santa Ana Forest Fire Poem

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Forest Fire

Santa Ana Wind comes

Blowin' offshore dry

Pick up pine needle

Wish for a blower

fingers dry raggle 

trim canopy under

rake every kindle

bury dead prickle

Santa Ana Wind comes

Blowin' offshore dry

poem and image copyright Caroline Gerardo