Ricardo Blanco’s Blog

• Poems for staying at home (Day 34)
    “This is the time of the killers.” Today’s poem is in tribute to George Floyd, and in support of Black Lives Matter. Palimpsest from Rimbaud I am writing over words written On the skin of other words.... Read More
• Poems for staying at home (Day 33)
    Bunnies and top hats, David Lynch and the dark reverberations of down the rabbit hole; all of this explored by the inimitable Pedro Serrano in this quarantine poem, first published in The Other Tiger.   The Rabbit and... Read More
• Poems for staying at home (Day 32)
    Today’s poem: a perfect study in stillness, by the Mexican poet Coral Bracho.   Goats In the whiteness and its nucleus of light the goats stand stock-still. Gently the rock holds them in its palm; like a... Read More
• Poems for staying at home (Day 31)
    As we find ourselves in June, two bumblebees, observed by the Mexican poet Pura López Colomé, hover over ‘rose coloured leaves / from a flower that is not a rose.’   And the Anthurium, Undaunted Two bumblebees... Read More
• Poems for staying at home (Day 30)
    After the weekend, this cow rummages through the debris left by the visiting humans; the remains of campfires, plastic carrier bags, bottles and beer cans. We know, we’ve seen it. Poor cow.   Fabio Morábito reminds us of... Read More