Cuba
1 December 2016
The National Geographic syndrome
- beware of thinking
- in twenty minutes you’ll know
- all about Cuba
Near Monte de Piedad in Old Havana
- a guard in Old Havana
- sulks at an entrance door—
- no pesos from me
3 December 2016
At the Museum of the Revolution
- bullet holes
- above the grand staircase
- draw a map of Cuba
In the former presidential palace
- in the chandelier
- high above the grand salon
- doves and pigeons nest
4 December 2016
Havana Club plant
- Havana Club makes
- six million liters of rum—
- enough for a year
Liberty below the statue of José Martí
- Lady Liberty
- under the chin of Martí
- swings her broken chains
City of Matanzas
- ice creams at the office
- of the historian
- of the city
From the defunct sugar mill
- Bell and giant cog
- to call workers and mash cane
- from the sugar mill
Old blue taxicab
- old blue taxicab
- as tired as its driver
- gets from here to there
5 December 2016
Casa particulares
- huevos fritos, toast
- tamarine juice and coffee
- banana, pineapple, papaya
Village dog
- a dog no one owns
- blending into the background
- sleeps on a sidewalk
6 December 2016
Liberty Square, Matanzas
- sweating in the shade
- Liberty Square, Matanzas
- in the morning
At the Che Memorial, Santa Clara
- billboard by Che’s grave:
- “Hasta la Victoria
- Siempre,” Fidel
7 December 2016
Two boys at the school of art, dance, and theater
- young and self possessed
- waiting for the head mistress
- two boys take the shade
Mice after a rehearsal of The Nutcracker
- beautiful young mice
- speak to us without language
- after their rehearsal
8 December 2016
Plaza Mayor, Trinidad
- Alexander and Aimé
- in Trinidad collected
- flora and fauna
11 December 2016
Castillo De Los Tres Reyes Del Morro
- the Spanish raised a chain
- across the harbor entrance
- to keep pirates out