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Birdly by Juan
Mobili
Compared to
a microbe the sparrow on the ledge is bigger than a dragon, yet it
is not what they can see that
the villagers fear, their chests beating faster than starlings. Even gratitude
moves quietly, afraid
to catch the attention of a falcon scanning the landscape for a
snack. These days
our ears seek familiar sounds, the
mailman’s truck stopping at our driveway, the rustling of our mail
finding its nest. When the invisible
is done taking what it will take, I wish to breathe the way a
cardinal does when
the squirrels are done marauding every bird feeder.
El Río de la Plata by Juan Mobili The river never asked for them, busy like a mother who stares at the school bus driving her children to another uncertain day, but it conceded to welcome their bodies cast from airplanes dictatorships disposing from incriminating evidence, a body of water cajoled to be an accomplice, accepting
to be a cradle, a resting place it never wished to be, a river forced to care for my friend’s bones.
A Greek Family by
Juan Mobili My God! My son lives a life that
puts the Odyssey to shame, and
I am tied to a mast, bound for
home, to my wife, who goes on weaving
and unweaving to hold suitors at
bay, hoping I am still the king she
married before Troy became such a long
gig, and family took a mythic toll.
At the Birds’
Bar By Juan
Mobili It is mostly old timers in the afternoon, no one sings, but a robin always slips a quarter in the jukebox and plays “Summer Wind” by Frank Sinatra. A hummingbird
decides he wants to buy me a drink, Bartender,
two double nectars on the rocks, please. His feathers seem heavy on his
tiny spine, almost ready to retire, but unsure when
the breeze will hint that it is over, unpreoccupied whether the flowers will
remember how much he cherished them,
or not.
Juan Pablo Mobili was born
in Buenos Aires and adopted by New York. His poems appeared in The American Journal
of Poetry, The Worcester Review, Impspired (UK), The Wild Word (Germany), and Otoliths (Australia),
among others. His work received an Honorable Mention from the
International Human Rights Art Festival, and multiple nominations for the
Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. His chapbook, Contraband,
was published this year.
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