Max Reif’s most recent poem to appear here was “In the Cathedral Nacional de Mexico” (October 2019).
Last Day in La Plata, Argentina
By Max Reif
By Max Reif
I go out on the street.
Though the air
is still cool,
sunlight falls sharply
upon every object.
I don’t want
this beauty to shatter.
The days here have been perfect,
but this the last day
with the certainty
of boutique hotels.
but this the last day
with the certainty
of boutique hotels.
Tomorrow I leave
to visit my shaman friend
in her grass lodge in Peru.
No telling what
that will be like.
in her grass lodge in Peru.
No telling what
that will be like.
Nothing can protect me
from time, and
its handmaiden,
from time, and
its handmaiden,
change.
