{"id":1117,"date":"2007-12-05T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2007-12-05T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T13:49:00","slug":"concrete-and-prose-by-caroline-maldonado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/concrete-and-prose-by-caroline-maldonado\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete and prose by Caroline Maldonado"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we've got two pieces by a new contributor \u2013 Caroline Maldonado \u2013 a concrete poem and a prose poem. And, in case you were wondering, the tango is danced in a figure of eight pattern.<\/span>


TANGO IS<\/span>

                               is<\/span>


            Tango                               a                    <\/span>



                              sad<\/span>


            thought                          danced.<\/span>
                <\/span>


                    that                   be<\/span>
                       <\/span>

                               can<\/span>



UNDERWORLD<\/span>
                    <\/span>
A safe room.  From here I can see the sky, violet before dawn, and the river, black, sucking up lamplight.<\/span>
    Light from a neighbour's window slips through the slatted blinds and stripes the kitchen floor behind me.  Somebody coughs, and laughs in their sleep. The fridge sings and the plumbing yawns like a distant train.  <\/span>
    The river below.<\/span>

                    *<\/span>

    \u2026air and dust tug it from her fingers: it cruises round Sainsbury's car park, dives under a departing car, where it catches on a wheel round and round and round out to the street, is blown under the 266, under lorries, under Fiat and Mercedes; it flattens, rises again, up over the pavement to slap the lamppost, catch a branch of the cherry tree, hang there one-armed, in the sunlight, waving to the world \u2013 it falls again, hovers over guttering until a final gust\u2026.<\/span>

                    *<\/span>

Beneath city streets sewers swell, smell of sulphur, tunnel waste.  In a rats' playground men build shelters of chipped wood and tin. Bottles and needles are a game for their dogs: tap and roll.<\/span>
    “I've messed up good this time.”  He looks away.  “Sometimes I feel so sad I could cry.  Sometimes, I could cry.”<\/span>
    <\/span>
The train doors open, heave a sigh, expelling breath and passengers \u2013 sssh. And then the voice:  <\/span>Please mind the gap.<\/span>


\u2022 Caroline Maldonado lives in London and Italy and has published poems in <\/span>nth position<\/span>, <\/span>Obssessedwith Pipework<\/span> and <\/span>The Interpreter's House<\/span>.<\/span>


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