The Divine Comedy in Three Volumes

By Guillermo Bowie

And Dante Alighieri only captured
Three levels within human fate
And it isn’t exactly explained
Where I was when the good senator exited this life

The senator of senators
Architect of the western
Director of the people
The human eclipse Vicente Fernandez

He was always capturing the people’s imagination
And he extended completely to the depths
Just as Dante Alighieri had handled people in their circumstances
In such a way Vicente Fernandez magnified the people

And in the way that Dante Alighieri told the episodes of people contemporary to his age
Vicente Fernandez captured the waves of his time
Fulfilling his sincere expression
In the middle lane of expressed voices 

Guillermo Bowie is a Portland, Oregon based writer. As Sociologist he is published in The Insurgent Sociologist and in Monthly Review. As poet he has been published in Portland’s The Free Agent, Forest Grove, Oregon’s Mr. Cogito, The Village Idiot, and Big Scream. Bowie is forthcoming in Children, Churches, and Daddies and in Blue Collar Review.

Bowie has a B.A. from Portland’s Lewis and Clark College, a M.A. from Columbia University, a second M.A. from New York University, was a Davis-Putter scholar at Harvard University, and did 1/2 of a Ph.D. at the University of Oregon.