The Stranger
- The Stranger
He comes to lend the skyto a feather, to angels eating frostand clowns eating stone.
His tongue is wetwith the saliva of beesand his veins are filledwith a tulip's blood.
There are people who saythat he sleepsin the bones of bad weatheror the secret placeswhere the water kneels.
The birds that lay their eggsin the goblets of dawnare perched on his fingers. [End Page 497]
Luis Garcia
Luis Garcia's first book of poems, The Calculated Lion, was published in Santiago, Chile, in 1963, where he had gone, from Berkeley, to study with Nicanor Parra. Subsequent volumes include The Handle; The Token; A Place of Morning; A Gift from the Darkness; Even Steven; More than Naked; Poems for Dinner; Snowbird; Two Pears; Beans; A Blue Book; The Mechanic; and Mr. Menu.
