Noir coffee spilled over the newspaper
We talked for hours, jobless hours
 
About borders, coups and the Icelandic landscape
Jef Costello was brought into the conversation,
 
Combed hair and smart suit – holding a gun,
Bluish stare over greyish glare  
 
The talk went on at full tilt,
It was writ large all over us
 
That old films and faraway countries
Wouldn’t bring us any new prospects
 
(though there’s no denying that Hugo
Barrett set a table before us sometime in 63)
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Details​
​Elegy (In Memory of Victor Esteban Celeiro), 2014

Publication history
​Empty Mirror, Bellingham, WA, USA, June 2014