Puma Perl's two poems "Driving to Humacao" and "The Ava Gardner Museum"
© 2022 Lindi Gordon, aka Clutterhead Puma Perl is a poet, writer, and performer. She’s the author of two chapbooks , Ruby True and Belinda and Her Friends , and three full-length poetry collections, knuckle tattoos, Retrograde (great weather for MEDIA), and Birthdays Before and After ( Beyond Baroque Books.) Her band, Puma Perl and Friends, brings spoken word together with rock and roll, has been performing together since 2012. She’s received three awards from the New York Press Association in recognition of her journalism and was the recipient of the 2016 Acker Award in the category of writing. In May of 2021, she curated and performed in four shows as part of the HOWL Happening! Artist in Residence program. Driving to Humacao Motorcycles don’t scare horses Bareback riders gallop past our creeping smoke-filled car A Popeye’s outlet grins at the foot of El Yunque, a young girl, wheelchair bound, displays her stump Rain forest waves us off, We took the long way round again Everything...