CAFÉ SELECT - Tecno-Libro

Truth, a dominatrix/asserting love is all... W.M. Rivera writes in Prelude, one of the opening poems in the book you are holding. Truth can be pleasurable, and painful all at the same time, like love and sex. This exploration of truth and love as double edged sword runs through Cafe Select. Rivera s poems are lusty gems, there s a fighting spirit, and a wise one at work in these poems, sometimes wrestling with itself, other times wrestling with the great spiritual chink in our armor, other people and their influence upon us. Rivera kinks it up in Cafe , and i m not just talking about sado-masochistic sex, or a lusty young couple in heat, the lines of these poems screw into each other creating a dense tough lyricism that is coupled with gritty reality: these sperm on the wing. Most won t make it. Some end up in luxur