Not a Strange Grammar

By Eduardo Escalante

nothing to raise Abel
or make a song and dance about

at the extreme of disorder
a hundred-year’s   flood   every   decade

stories   stir   shadows
over our   small   hours

there is no place
principle     or signal
right left center
where to live

no cause, no cause

at the extreme of disorder
the disorder
is the only place.

 


Eduardo Escalante is an author, writer, researcher, living in Valparaíso, Chile. He writes about happiness, love, social justice, and current events. Eduardo’s work appears in several Spanish publications and reviews, including signum Nous, Ariadna, Nagari, Espacio_Luke, and Lakuma Pusaki, and in Spillwords Press.

Photo credit: “Chaos Theory” by Patrick McConahay via a Creative Commons license.