People and Places: Three Poems by Lorraine Caputo
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SMALL COINS
On this damp morn
people hurry to work
armed soldiers guard the palace
& a few paces away…
A young man
sits on the cold cobblestones
bare feet shod in flip-flops
He plays a guitar
hoarsely singing for
small coins scattered
by those passersby…
IN THE MORNING RAIN
a man with a cloud
of white hair
plays a violin
SEA ANGLERS
A man poles out to sea
in a balsillo log raft
& up on this beach,
five fishermen sort their catch
surrounded by hordes of gulls
awaiting the cast-offs
Author: Wandering troubadour Lorraine Caputo is a documentary poet, translator and travel writer. Her works appear internationally in over 500 journals and 24 collections of poetry – including Orinoco Plains (dancing girl press, 2025). She also authors travel narratives, articles and guidebooks. She is a Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada honoree (2011), and Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. Caputo has done literary readings from Alaska to Patagonia. She journeys through Latin America with her faithful knapsack Rocinante, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Social media: https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com