Omnipresent,

her visage in my dreams,
waking or asleep,
dusky eyes and bowed lips,
thick with frustrated,
almost promises.

Orchids

watching in the background,
laundry tumbling while she sips
milk tinged with coffee,
thinking her own thoughts.

Dreaming

of her, on a winter’s eve.

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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2019; all rights reserved.

Guillermo Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia although he has primarily lived in the United States of America (of which he is a citizen). Until recently he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. He has academic degrees in political science (the Citadel), law (St. John’s University), international legal studies (New York University) and translation and linguistic studies (the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at http://www.guillermocalvo.com.