Poems read for Dig Underground Podcast:
Denver, Colorado
Summer 2019
Solstice
A burning night
slumbered into chest
a debate between what
the brightest thing of the day
is or was Jupiter, or Saturn
I did not see Venus face
and the sky vast with intentions
to dissipate
The connecting satellites
peeling the stars like a pistachio
cracking into unsettled dirt
Crawling from my skin
a summer night and a morning without a name
and like a past life that is known, and yet unspoken of
an alarm clock in the distance
trying to wake the birds
trying to tell the body
that today is the longest day of the year.
Intentional DE-------- hydration
I am constantly asking myself
“When was the last time you had a drop of water?”
I caress my skin and respond,
“It’s been eight hours”
A ceramic lining
caressing lips
against a dry wall
White and losing humidity
a wave beneath the roots
Anchors meant to plunge
and take space like rows
of ivy
Piles of heat
dripping between my thighs, and a wooden balcony
holding those roses that were already dry
and that now are burning
leaving imprints of their vanity
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