I WANT A POEM AND OTHER POEMS

<p>Description</p><p>I want a poem like thick tropical rain.</p><p>Dense green spatter of syllables</p><p>Drumbeat consonants fertile with meaning.</p><p>Sudden. Short. Unforgettable.</p><p>Afterwards jungle silence.</p><p>I want a poem like a Russian circus;</p><p>You should know it has been trained.</p><p>No ordinary everyday poem could leap like that</p><p>No quotidian poem could shimmer spangle exult like that...</p><p>Wondering poems wise poems. Fierce poems and playful poems. Poems</p><p>about everyday things and uncommon things. Poems of isolation and</p><p>fellowship; about loving and leaving finding and losing and finding again.</p><p>Jerry Pinto's second collection of poetry sparkles and soothes; in words</p><p>that always ring true it shows us what it means to be human and how to be</p><p>human. In his verse as in his prose Pinto is a writer to come home to.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>