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Ofrenda For Lobo
Pat Mora

Come, fierce guardian angel
in black shoes. Let me whet
your appetite. I've gathered
all you loved, or still love,
for this altar , tiers of sweet
temptation, earth's delights.
Visit me, if only for a night.

Come. Papel picado sways to guitars
white as starlight on this arch in bloom.
Velvet scents have I for you, champagne
mists of pale perfumes, crimson petals,
green of pine, coiling clouds: countless
candles, burning, burning bright on this
altar to whet your stubborn appetite.
Drift back. Visit me if only for tonight.

Come. Sweet steam invites: cafe, camote en leche.
Melodies polite curl round you soft as this smoke
at midnight. Follow: click of rosary beads, rumors
of agua sants. Bite bread, white for our communion,
shaped like a wolf, you, head tense, shielding her cubs.
Come, books to lure you to recite old tales, and we
will reunite in cuentos of ancestors who rise at dawn,
lift their voices in songs of praise. Like wise incense
your worse rise, coil, whet your appetite; entangle
you, entangle me. Come. Visit, if only for this night.

Expect the number of posts I make to decrease once NaNoWriMo begins, and my insanity to increase. I may also start posting poems once every two weeks or once a month.

Quizzes are always an entertaining way of procrastinating on homework. Besides, I wanted to do something frivolous before NaNoWriMo begins.

Which Dracula character are you? (From the original story)

Van HelsingMost recently known for the monster movie, it surprised me, nevermind you lot out there, of his character in the Dracula book. Van Helsing is a professor from Amsterdam who is called to England, to help Lucy through her bizzare syptoms of disease. You are intelligent, and well-focused, you are a good man, and work for the safety of many things. You are willing to face the Undead and death with seemingly nerves of steel.
Take this quiz!