Puerto Oscuro

Bathing standing up
scooping water
​out of a standing bucket
with a measuring cup
by the light of a veladora
creates the conditions
the stillness and blankness of mind
to meditate on the distribution of
darkness.

Darkness.
The ocean depths rolling in
in surges unprotected.

Darkness.
The cover of night under which
pirates and profiteers
chomping at the bit
sneak in and snap up
the land vacated by those running for their lives.

Darkness.
The cover of night under which
a new colony is built over the old
a technopolis where a single transaction of
imaginary currency
consumes enough power to supply
dozens of households currently draped in 
darkness.

Off the coast
the water glows
from microscopic creatures
​who generate their own light
as we must generate ours.