THANK YOU FOR THIS SUBMISSION CHRISTIAN ALVAREZ!
Christian Lawrence Alvarez
“my letters hide in the tiny cuts in my mouth. They gang up when the cops are called, excuses are to be made, or love is in the thin air.”
thanks for your time love your work
I wanted
to make sure
I spoke to you
before the coffee cools and slows down
before the flaring curtain
before ever to be
before yesterday
before the phosphorescent vagary of shut eye dulls
and can still be hooked in reverie
day dreamt captcha
if in perfect
I would use raucous letters
placed together like parity
spoken in elegance like cursive
each word from a different language
and the marrow would be pierced
i’ve drawn a bath of cream
in porcelain
I have cut the olive trees down
gloveless
and chased the barking rabbits away
shoeless
I have conquered strings
and twisted strands
I can only speak in pictures and auger
now to fumble encore
silent separate hands
I have said nothing at all
a vessel a shallow in bracelet
and so I smile