Lucy & Ricky in Havana, or Trop...

Lucy & Ricky in Havana, or Tropical Geometry in Sublime

This is the geography of a man who believed in
the sadness of place names.

--Marcus Cafagna, "Geography"

When he saw El Malecon and by what means the waves
broke harsh against the refuge jetty, he wept
and she held him in her auburn hair, first-
time lover in the calm tropical breeze, later
rode the launches to Regla and attended
a folk dance with conga tympanums and Chinese
trumpets, to what degree black hands slapped out
a beat against the taut skins, she danced
the best that she should, aware of her lack
of rhythm--nobody knew