Buffalo Soldiers

An extinct breed, going
around telling your story,
on tape recorders so you can
be sold like a burger,
9.95.

I'd buy your book, remember
your plight in Europe
in WWII.

If WWIII happens, would you
remember me?

My familia

Some people don't know
how to rock
the boat,
myopic at best.

You try walking on the water,
and you can run with the
rest.

Blinds

We had silver, chrome,
blinds in my first home
on Carriage Lane.

They showed a peek of
grapevines,
some fruit trees,
and a deck.

A lot for a little
girl to avoid.

The only time I went

out there was at

Easter, to catch eggs

before they hatched
into dreams.

Burqah

I waited on my knees,

before Allah.

The call me,

the clothes Muslim.

I hear a call to prayer

and I enter in and bow

down.

I eat with them

and they become me,

wanting school,

an earring,

a shoe left

for Muhammad.

Paris Review

I want to publish this in the Paris Review.

MontmartRe

Henri de Toulouse-LAutrec.

Born in the Pyrenees of France.

You were the firstborn,

and studied Degas and Manet.

Descendant of aristocracy,

the counts, and cousins were

your parents.

Producing a man small of stature,

prolific in nature,

and nouveau was never the same.

"Le vieux con!"

You were not an old fool,

in my eyes.

By Gisella Perezarce
Copyright 2009

Frogs

My Grandma Laura was known as the
queen of the frogs.

You may notice I use queen a lot but I come
from aristocracy.

She had a society of frogs and her
deathbed consisted of inducting the officers
and crowning them her successors.

Surrounded in her morado room with
yellow roses and paintings of Renoir,

who smiled back at the Queen of the Frogs.

I gave her a couple of frogs and others did as well.

She smiled at her Prince Tom,
who she wrote about frogs to,

when he was a boy.

The alter after her death, had colorful,
tin frogs. For a royal procession

of green ambience that led her to

her court of friends.


In Memorium Grandma Laura one year passing.

Vogue

Do you remember the girdles that Madonna
used to wear over her suits in "Vogue?"

I used to wear girdles, too.

Just one, I bought it at a thrift store
as an eighteen year old with a bigger, belly.

Its funny, I have a smaller one now and it is
fifteen years later.

Smaller belly, not girdle.

I don't need to wear Spandex under my dresses.

I occasionaly wear tights if the dress is tight
or too short.

That is the beauty of age.

The ability to be free.