Poems Revisited

Solstice on the Half-shell This winter we'll have summer The unkind cold will slip away Beneath us As we sleep high over the Equator We shall know tango We shall dance below the Perito Moreno Glacier Near the strait that saved Magellan for one more Ocean We'll play in Llao Llao land Beside the blue blue lake of The Andes And sip rich, red Malbec From Mendoza Feast on Pampas-fed beef We'll stroll the streets of San Telmo and shed a tear for Evita The world my Love is our Cape Horn of Plenty Our Ushuaia Oyster. --Jack, on the eve of our trip to Argentina, Winter 2004 View from Llao Llao Argentina 2004 photo by Jack