Two Poems by C. Dale Young

Two poems by faculty member C. Dale Young appear at The Collagist:

Mestizaje

At the ruins of Tulum, on a boulder
half-buried in the sand on the famous beach
below the often-photographed pyramid
that stares out at the sea, I found

a petroglyph overlaid in white chalk
to better demonstrate the bird-like thing
carved into its side. I had seen it before.
In Cuba, maybe, or Puerto Rico, somewhere

Continue reading “Mestizaje” online, and find the second poem, “Precatio simplex,” here.