love
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night letter to my mother
you lie to yourself // i learn late to work inside the bodyslow madness // in the end you mend // the broken partsi lieyou die working // the body gave up // and in my final act// i try to mend // the broken piecesthe mirror breaksyou walk the same dirty sidewalksbefore you were…
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grayscale // when love demands
Themes: Love // Hope // Faith grayscalewhen the ocean is black, i pacethe long corridor of the summer/homea mouth stirs the room. the walls hum and light won’t sleep. the dark altersmy skin against an unyielding arm i should brace the furnace—but i stay, watching how we drumbeneath the skin, bodies riggedto learn each other…
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Senseless // Litany for the Broken Body
Themes: Love // Silence // Queerness // Queer Body // Desire // Bilingual SenselessMost people would’ve ghostedBut me?I call it love—I just wanted to worship the ignition,the firestarter who kissed like a loaded gunand left a trail across my skinlike something meant to burn.But here we are—tracing the heat your body left behind;you, reciting a…
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in the valley where sunflowers burn // smoke and missing father
Two American sonnets en Borinkén Themes: Family // Love // Silence // Queerness // Borinkén in the valley where sunflowers burnawake, i find wood burningin a house not too far off. palm trees bow,in prayer, but collapse. a sheet of tarlooms above the mountain’s base—so thick, it presses like molasses mixingwith scrambled eggs. a smoke-slick…
Luis E. Santos 