Four Places in Bogotá (3/4): Universidad Nacional

March 2017

 

 

Man, myth and material meet in four places in Bogotá.
A series of four poems.

 

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    Universidad Nacional

 

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life sprawls

 

violently kind

 

from the rotten white walls

 

of universidad

 

billowing an epos of battlefields

 

where form still informally phrases

 

her stretch infinitely yields

  land, where her castles soothe

 

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Eli Dorsman