Isak with eyes swimming in blood

will sell his land and go to Mexico

and come back broke and homeless.

He’ll move back in with his Mommy

and brother Pulla who already

sold his land and moved back in

with Mommy. Isak can’t stop

talking about Jaak and Rose

on the Titanic. When he sings

a Canto he loses rhythm on the

turtle shells. He tattooed the names

of three old girlfriends on his arms.

They all took off but the tattoos

still love him loco.

Terrell Hunter’s books include “Day Dreaming at Night,” “Bite the Night” and “Down on the Margin.” He lives in Garland and teaches in the English Department at the University of Maine. This poem is based on his recent experiences in Belize, where he sometimes goes to get a break from Maine winter.