The face not mine—but one I will wear to kiss all my lovers good-night: the way I seal my father’s lips with my own & begin the faithful work of drowning.
Fernanda Cisneroshar citerati fjol
How a horse will run until it breaks
into weather—into wind. How like
the wind, they will see him. They will see him
clearest
when the city burns.
liahar citerati fjol
No, a man
bending over his son
the way the hunted,
for centuries, must bend
over its own reflection
to drink.
liahar citerati fjol
Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here? I was still here once.
liahar citerati fjol
Maybe we pray on our knees because god
only listens when we’re this close
to the devil.
liahar citerati fjol
Don’t you know? A mother’s love
neglects pride
the way fire
neglects the cries
of what it burns.
liahar citerati fjol
Everyone’s shouting or singing and he can’t tell whether the song is for him—or the burning rooms he mistook for childhood.
liahar citerati fjol
He laughs but his eyes betray him. He laughs despite knowing he has ruined every beautiful thing just to prove beauty cannot change him.
liahar citerati fjol
I open my eyes. His face between my hands, wet as a cut. If we make it to shore, he says, I will name our son after this water. I will learn to love a monster.
liahar citerati fjol
He moves like any
other fracture, revealing the briefest doors. The dress