Tag: poetry
Sounds of Silence
What should we do with the inexpressible?
Routine
Poetry written in 2015 (early junior year of HS). Silver Key in National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The ring of my father’s phone echoes His fingers ballerina against the glass glow. I stare into darkened windows around me but cannot find another human. We move, a machine among machines. Around me, road billboards preach the cult of a…
Ballerina at the Border
A piece inspired by seeing Yo Yo Ma’s Spring 2019 performance at the Mexico-US border in Laredo. Written during a brief episode of lexical-gustatory synesthesia. La placer por la presencia de Yo-Yo-Ma This sentence tastes like a milkshake; it flows playful down the tongue The way water and children descend slides Chocolate milk, foamy cream…
Candlelit
Published in the Stonefence Review May 23, 2019. This version has new edits. They urge: use mania as midnight oil. The last calories in an emaciated stomach, a trickle of water in a dessicated bladder, the fumes in an empty tank. I must burn it before I run out, or I will be left with…
Moving Out
Never again will I have to bear the shrill of screams As some pitiful sibling endures a bath. The mess of a house tearing at the seams, The grateful hugs of a fragile sister. Nights cut short by a sharp curfew, Brothers wrestling as dirt flew, And you know no one will ever hurt you.…