I know my darling boy,
The way his eyes twinkle when he plays with toys,
And how he hides when he sees insects.
The thing in my house is not my son,
The way its eyes twinkle...
My petals are a golden;
The brightest beams of a swollen sun.
They’re swooned over, so foreign
Yet a lyre gently strung.
I’m praised for my sparkle
A blessing just...
There are words I drown in a lake
until they fall to the depths
of whatever lies in my mind’s willows.
Rather than speaking them,
I yell my confessions with pencil lead,
leaping ...
She appears again in the flicker,
condensing like moisture on glass
until she looks almost human.
Her skin hums with distortion,
several faces try to line up into one.
When...
It is within the constraints of space
That you become what you are meant to be.
It is within the shades of the sun
That you decide where you stand.
Whether the poles,...
Sabina Ramon, "Blinded"
In a laboratory of metal and grime,
A son lay flat upon the table.
An accident had melted his skin
And left his life hanging off a cliff.
Hooked to machines...
Maya Trest, "The Love of a Raven Dove"
2 insatiable bellies of bile,
4 hunger-driven wings and
1 anomalous brain.
these are my tools of Creation.
i find the fragrance...
Xochitl Trejo, "My Closest Friend"
At the peak of his youth,
An infant writhes in his cradle.
He scribbles with marker and crayon,
Cooing at the colors,
Eyes alight with the spark
That’s...
Eva Sullivan, "Monochrome Reflection"
The moon is different now.
It hangs like a porcelain plate
nailed neatly to the dark.
Too round and too pale,
as if it has never known hunger.
The...
