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ARS GEOGRAPHICA: MAPS AND COMPASSES

Going Galápagos

i

Three

Quito

sea-lions

stretched

like

Ecuadorean

pashas

along

the

dockside bench.

Equator

gate-keepers

of

Pacific

ease

and

loll.

Whiskered

docents

of

fin, beak, claw and shell

carapace and wing

sea and island

Beagle and Acushnet

sight and word

and

all of them

yawning.

Quito

via

runway Guayaquil.

Quito

of

La Plaza Grande

La Catedral

El Mercado de Otavalo

Quito

of

Hidalgo Gothic

be-hatted mestizaje

a hundred shoeshine boys

Quito

of

thin oxygen

and

Andean volcano hills

Quito

of

Earth’s closeness

to the sun

Quito

of

street pobreza

and

JW Marriott Five-Star Hotel