Pleased to have Pablo Cuzco’s prose poems featured at Underfoot this week. Please show your support for Pablo as this is his first (& deserved) publication.
We are always looking for talented, unpublished writers to feature on Underfoot. Sometimes it takes a little push of encouragement to help a poet emerge & I hope Underfoot can toggle between the emerging & emerged.Daniel
Flowers of Dawn
A yellow moon over the rooftops—striking in silence—blue sky, dark and twinkling—stars meld into street light—alleyways cluttered with bottles clink | a cat howls in summer heat— water washes away the smear | bleary-eyed and broken, I stumble among dust bins and sediment of the living—crowned with a halo—spirits | God and Whisky—the One and the Same. Showers of dusty moonbeam create a fedora of night—a cap of dawn—a screw.
The sun rises— wrinkled | bloody sky | the whirr of a circular saw grinds its path on wood—plank | Bang! Bang! nuclear splashes ripple alcohol headache |—air full of harps, angelic choirs—Ave, Maria! | choking, dumb rattle of death wakes me.
Crow!
Crow!
A rooster | strangled by the roar of automobiles | a cop drags cars through the crossroads—my mind | the Altiplano—the drifter’s horse and the gunslinger on L-dopa | brought to…
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Daniel Paul Marshall 
Good to see Pablo’s work out in the world!
I agree. Plenty of good poets out there who need opportunities.
Agreed. You’re assembling an excellent line up.
Thanks Bob. We’ve got more good stuff lined up. Got a submission yesterday which blew my socks off. & some more first publications whose first language isn’t English, but Slovakian.
Can’t wait to read them!
Thanks, Robert. It is a long sought dream coming true.
With more to come, Pablo!
Thanks, Daniel, for your continued support through the process—from your early words of encouragement, to the final push of confidence in my work. I am much obliged.
My pleasure. I hope it can be the start of more. We all need a foot in & I am glad I could provide it.
::a man once shared his dreams…
And the world was better for it.
Bravo!
Thank you, Stephanie.