From Love In A Time of Plague Exhibition of Drawings, Tetro Galeria Manny Maldonado in the Williamsburg Neighborhood of Brooklyn presents an exhibition of mixed media drawings by Jose Torres Tama from November 6 through December 19, 1998. Inspired by the title of Garcia Marquez's Love In The time of Cholera, these drawings comment on unbridled passions and sexual gambles.

Stars Are Eyes

Stars saw you drop me
in between the night,
but I am a sponge of moonlight
with the Mississippi in my pores.

And when the search hounds seek me out
because my scent is strong,
they will deduce that other eyes
were on me beyond your stealth.

Yes, the unseen makes a shadow in the lonely hour,
makes a record for the course of time,
for the century later when your soul is hanging from a key chain.

New York